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September 7, 2018 by billbruce Leave a Comment
Tamburlaine. Rsc review by Peter Buckroyd.
Tamburlaine
The Swan Theatre
I guess it was a mistake to go to a Preview of Tamburlaine because it is directed by Michael Boyd and his productions are often not in their finished form for the Previews (unlike Gregory Doran's or Erica Whyman's). However I did. Friends tell me that it is much better ten days or two weeks into the run. Good.
The story itself is pretty simple. Tamburlaine, born a shepherd, wants to rule the world and sets out to do so by whatever means it takes. He invades, kills and conquers. It was immensely popular with Elizabethan audiences, the first play to spawn a sequel in Tamburlaine the Great Part 11.
This production puts the two plays together, cutting them violently, to result in 2 hours 55 minutes playing time. And for me this is the main part of the problem. A vast number of Marlowe's mighty lines have inevitably been cut, resulting in a loss of poetry, lyricism, political philosophy and debate and leaving sometimes little more than plot. There are vast numbers of characters (or at any rate named people) involved and so doubling and trebling is parts is necessary. It only takes about an hour or so for the audience to realise that the issues are the same regardless of who is being conquered and that the motivation of the main character is simply megalomania. It's interesting to see kings killed and reappear as other kings whose behaviour is similar as is their fate. Maybe that is the message of the play, warning Elizabethans of the danger of expansionism and drawing parallels with modern day atrocities. The primary women (Tamburlaine's wife Zenocrate (Rosy McEwen) and Bajazeth's wife Zabena (Debbie Korley)) do a good job of attracting audience interest and involvement, despite their curtailed parts and both Tamburlaine (Jude Owusu) and Bajazeth (Sagar I M Arya) are powerful and effective as oppressor and oppressed.
Mycetes, King of Persia, is made semi-comic. Sychophantic Meander (James Tucker), in black, looks out of place and therefore transcends particular time and place.
There is much casual walking over dead bodies. Characters are either smeared in chocolate blood when they die or have chocolate blood poured over them from a bucket. There is a good deal of subtle unobtrusive music, mainly percussion. Bajazeth's cage is pushed in and off efficiently and serves several symbolic purposes. There are dodgy human horses who pull on Tamburlaine's chariot after the interval, making obvious political links with Bajazeth in the first half.
There is a horrifying violent immoral ending with the sacrilegious burning of holy books. Kings, we sense, are ten a penny. There are guns and a good deal of leather at the end. All becomes gratuitous violence and slaughter.
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July 29, 2018 by billbruce Leave a Comment
Miss Littlewood, review by Peter Buckroyd.
Miss Littlewood
Joan Littlewood was a hugely influential figure in mid-twentieth century British drama, innovating in theatre and theatre direction in a similarly important way to Jonathan Miller in opera productions.
Sam Kenyon's new musical is a tribute to Littlewood, telling some of her story in a kind of theatrical biopic. It is hard watching it to separate what is his work and what is director Erica Whyman's but this is consonant with Littlewood's productions which often blurred the line between writer, composer and director, as seen in her iconic Oh What a Lovely War.
Littlewood's innovations such as regional accents, ensemble productions, audience involvement, workshop rehearsals are all taken for granted now but they were strikingly new to her audiences in the north of England and then at her eventual permanent London base the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. In her company actors came and went, earned a pittance while they broke new ground and Kenyon and Whyman show these things throughout.
The show is narrated by one permanent Joan (Clare Burt) but Joan at different stages of her career is played by six other actresses (bug, small, black, white, with different accents) with the permanent Joan often breaking traditional theatrical boundaries by interacting with the audience and commenting on the performances of the Joans.
I wish I knew more about the specific directorial techniques Littlewood used (I am old but not old enough to have seen more than a few of her productions at Stratford East which came to an end in 1975). But it seemed to me that Whyman and Kenyon were telling the story in very much the same way as Littlewood would have done, so that this musical is an insight into mid-twentieth century theatre in Littlewood's hands, theatre which led to the development of agitprop, for example. And Whyman, like Littlewood, expects her actors to be able to act, to play musical instruments, to sing and dance. These they do splendidly.
This production certainly gets across the idea that theatre should be an immersive experience, that theatre should not be elitist, that radicalism and satire are what drive our nation forward. It also raises timely issues such as inclusivity, equal opportunities for talent regardless of background and funding for the arts. The RSC can't quite manage Littlewood's dream of a multi-class audience, though the CV37 tickets ought to help.
Whyman's meticulous attention to detail, the readiness of all her productions for a first preview audience, attention to detail and intellectual coherence are all on view. What is extraordinary is that she should have two artistic triumphs running at the same time at the RSC (Romeo and Juliet and Miss Littlewood) coming hot on the heels of the artful but seemingly artless direction of Three Letters at The Other Place. It all leaves me hungry for more of her work.
Whether the music will prove as catchy as Oh What a Lovely War's and whether the satirical edge is a keen as in Littlewood's work only time will tell.
But what remains very clear in my mind is the success of this show as an ensemble production. True, there are some fine performances (Clare Burt as Joan Littlewood, Greg Barnett as Jimmie Miller, Solomon Israel as Gerry Raffles, Sophia Nomvete and Emily Johnstone as Joans) and a great deal of slick stagecraft, scene changing and furniture removal – from the performers' point of view it is all hands on deck. As I write this in the week that our Prime Minister threatened her cabinet with the news that she had replacements ready if they did not tow her line, this production's message about co-operation and egalitarianism is stark.
How commercial this musical will prove to be I don't know. Littlewood wouldn't have cared. It doesn't have the gimmicks and Dahlish appeal of Matilda, but it is much cleverer and more uplifting. Come and see it. If you can combine it with a visit to Romeo and Juliet and enhance your experience with a stay at Moss Cottage you will be made very welcome.
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May 19, 2018 by billbruce
Romeo & Juliet. Review by Peter Buckroyd.
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
We nearly always go to the previews of the plays at the RSC and we have yet to go to one directed
either by Gregory Doran or Erica Whyman which isn't completely ready for public performance.
I enjoyed this brilliantly paced production, splendidly directed by Erica Whyman, for many reasons. It
was great to see characters who are the age Shakespeare intended. You can believe that Juliet (Karen
Fishwick), talking ten to the dozen, is fourteen and her mother (Mariam Haque) twenty eight. Romeo
(Bally Gill) is also a convincing teenager with streetwise swagger, rapid changes of emotion,
impetuosity and body in perpetual motion. It is also refreshing to see a modern production which is
contemporary. It is dominated by gangland culture where the races and genders are mixed and knife
crime is rife. I think it's most inventive of Whyman to present iambic pentameter and rhyming
couplets as characteristic of rap-like street culture; the form of language itself becomes myth. And
Romeo's purchase from the apothecary makes clear that drug dealing is in contemporary cities a
response to poverty and threatened destitution.
You can see that although Shakespeare calls the feud an 'ancient quarrel' it is passed down from
generation to generation. Tybalt's irrational belligerence is mirrored by Capulet in his vile and
abusive treatment of Juliet. In that scene you can easily imagine Lord Capulet in a street gang fifteen
or twenty years previously. The verse is well delivered throughout but the language and rhythms are
from the street. Splendid. There is impressive attention to detail, too. Don't miss (as most of the
audience did when I saw it) the dumb show with Romeo and Juliet in bed together during the interval.
I had not noticed before how Lord Capulet talks about Juliet in the third person even while she is
present. The most highly political and social statement comes at the end of the play where the dead
walk among the living and where there is little understanding of how to change the world except by
splitting and violence – timely for me in week where the irrational President Trump took on Iran,
alienated Europe and was busy cosying up to North Korea.
Tom Piper's set is simple. No need for the RSC to spend loads of money just for the sake of it when
the play is what we have gone to see. There's a big cube with an open face which can be turned roun
as which deals with all the location changes prompting the thought that no matter who is involved and
wherever it is taking place the same things recur. There's a small ladder, some ladders on the outside
of the cube and an armchair which is carried on and off. It's all the more effective, therefore, when
after Tybalt's death red candles, red roses and a red shroud are brought on. The complete lack of
unnecessary frills is demonstrated when the dead Tybalt is placed on the shroud which is then pulled
easily off stage – far more effective than trying to heave a sizeable Tybalt (Raphale Sowole) off by
muscle power. The music composed by Sophie Cotton, too, is contemporary and effective in creating
moods. The rock music at Capulet's feast, with its undertones of energy and anarchy, creates
wonderful prolepsis and dramatic irony.
There are some subtleties of characterisation, too, all of which make sense of some of the problems in
the play. Rather than gloss over it, Whyman deals with the behaviour of Lady Capulet. She is faced
with a dilemma: she loves her daughter but is scared of her husband. She knows that he will react
violently towards Juliet when she refuses to marry Paris; that is why she leaves Juliet to him. It is for
her own survival that she sides with her husband. Paris is gentle, loyal and charming, genuinely
distressed at Juliet's death. That is why he visits the monument at the end. Friar Lawrence (Andrew
French) is also interestingly characterised. In a different way from the street gang members he, too,
acts on the spur of the moment. All his decisions are made because he has just thought of them. This
is a clever choice because he's just like Romeo, really. And one of the real problems of the text is
what to do with Mercutio and how. As a female gang member this Mercutio, played with
extraordinary physicality and energy by Charlotte Josephine, tries to outmale the gang's males but
suffers in the end for it .The Duke, too, is female, striding on stage in her sharp suit and shoes and
making pronnouncements which sound authoritative but do little to solve society's problems. We
cannot avoid thinking of our present Prime Minister. In this way Whyman invites us to think about all
the females in the play and their places in their society. And if we do that she has forced us to reflect
on contemporary Britain.
We are also invited to think about class, ethnicity and background. It becomes clear that some
members of the lower classes such as Balthasar (Tom Padley) have unfailing loyalty to their masters
in refusing to leave the monument even when instructed to do so, unlike Friar Lawrence who flees in
fright in order to save his own skin. Whyman gives the one illiterate character in the play a West
Indian accent. Lady Capulet and Juliet have Scottish accents. Benvolio a northern one. The Nurse
(splendidly played by Ishia Bennison), having escaped from her position merely as a wet nurse, has to
side with her masters in telling Juliet to marry Paris because she needs to keep her job. The black
characters, like the white, have a range of accents.
I feel I haven't done justice to the depth and sophistication of the problemisation and interrogation of
the text which Whyman has undertaken. It is a play about extremism and impetuosity. It is a study in
false logic. It is truly contemporary with much to say about a multi-ethnic society. I have seen it
twice already and I am looking forward to seeing it again.
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March 25, 2018 by billbruce 1 Comment
Mrs Rich, review by Peter Buckroyd
The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich
Swan Theatre
I went to the preview of the RSC's production of this play with considerable excitement. I had reconciled myself to thinking that I would never see a production of one of Mary Pix's plays and here it is. Why should I care? In the very early 1970s I spent three years reading and studying the three hundred or so tragedies that were performed in London between 1695 and 1740. I have only ever seen a production of one of them. Now admittedly The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich is not a tragedy but it is by one of the more popular tragedians of the period. It's a Restoration comedy. It would be untrue to say that the RSC has uncovered a neglected masterpiece, but Mrs Rich is a perfectly good well-made Restoration comedy, all the more interesting because it is by a woman rather than a man. Most people are unaware that there were at least five well known and popular women dramatists of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century – Aphra Behn, Susanna Centilevre, Mary de la Riviere Manley, Catharine Trotter and Mary Pix.
What I found most enjoyable about this production, directed by Jo Davies and designed by Colin Richmond is that it catches a great deal of the spirit of what a production might have been like at the end of the seventeenth century. Of course the stage mechanics are very different, but instead of having flats in grooves pushed on from the side stage Richmond has painted curtains which can be furled and unfurled or pulled down as needed. Typical of the period are the many scenes with just a small number of characters who would have performed near the front of the stage because it wasn't easy to see what with the fumes from the candles and the cigarette smoke. And Richmond has candlelike footlights round three quarters of the stage. There is spectacle, too, in the form of the sumptuous costumes, gorgeous to look at, colourful and a way of filling the stage and in the form of the toy coach in Hyde Park. The set consists of hand props – lots of them – all carried on and off by the cast. The mechanics of this give visual variety and all the transitions are slickly accomplished.
Davies uses a great deal of movement in the production and all members of the cast employ a series of expansive hand and arm gestures which give an authentic sense of period. There are period style songs, too, written by Tarek Merchant and a wind quartet and harpsichord in period costume and wigs which form a pre-show concert. Sentimentality is assured by the appearances of elder Clerimont's dogs, Lossie and Theia.
What of the play itself? It's all pretty familiar and recognisable if you know Restoration comedy. It's a mildly satirical comedy of manners. It unmasks hypocricy, deals with social pretentions, reveals the shallowness of 'persons of quality', deals with the complications of inheritance, the crucial need for money in society courtship, marriage, plotting, twists and turns, mistaken identity, mischief making, the more grounded nature of members of the working classes. The only difference is that it is the women who are controlling everything, rather than the men and they are therefore alert to and manage to unmask male folly. One of the more hilarious moments is when there is a challenge and duel between Mrs Rich and Lady la Basset and they engage in a sword fight in their undergarments. Rich widows are searching for husbands and take the lead in their quests. The men might look as if they have some power and authority but they don't. In the end the women find their husbands and there are marriages (giving the opportunity for yet more gorgeous costumes).
The cast is very good. Compared with the dire performances in Macbeth playing only a few yards away the acting here is properly professional. For me the star is Sadie Shimmin playing a wonderful servant/landlady magnificently. She is a joy to watch and to listen to whenever she appears. But there are other excellent performances, too. Mrs Clerimont turns out to be the moral centre of the play and Jessica Turner does a fine job, completely convincing. Sophie Stanton is on stage most of the time as Mrs Rich. She has most of the songs and is a commanding presence, her gowns taking up a great deal of space on the beautiful shiny parquet floor and the wearer showing them off to their maximum advantage. I felt at the beginning that there was something not quite right about her accent but then realised that that is because she is not a 'person of quality' and so her vowels indicate her pretentions. Effective. There are no weak links in this production. It's a clever move to cast Tam Williams as Sir John Roverhead. He's a slight figure who looks cute in his posh brocade but he is a small man, morally flawed, who gets his comeuppance at the end. I didn't grasp why he had rouge only on his right cheek; that possible symbolism was lost on me.
Don't expect anything very deep and you are bound to enjoy this production. Come and stay at Moss Cottage with its sumptuous breakfast and award winning marmalade and your visit will be complete.
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March 20, 2018 by billbruce Leave a Comment
Duchess of Malfi, review by Peter Buckroyd
The Duchess of Malfi
In The Duchess of Malfi Webster takes the popular Elizabethan and Jacobean genre, Revenge Tragedy, just about as far as it can go, with the result that after Webster there are some pale imitations of the genre, but it soon goes out of fashion. The play is a kind of generic and non-specific political warning, although there are some significant elements such as the too-powerful ruler, the church, the victimisation of women and the dangers of the time-serving self-interested.
In her decision to use modern dress Maria Aberg invites the audience to think about whether any of this has any relevance to our modern world. Of course it does. And she invites us to be horrified by the consequences of being governed by each of these things and by revenge. By her casting decisions she adds racism to the mix.
I have yet to see a production of Maria Aberg's where I saw what I expected. This is no exception. The production opens with a woman (presumably the Duchess (Joan Iyiola)) laboriously dragging the corpse of an enormous animal – I thought a bull – diagonally across the stage when it is eventually hung up. Pretty soon violence, eroticism and masculinity are depicted in a boxer dance, and a heavy metal thugs dance. The Jacobean obsessions with sex and death soon become clear with the Duchess's obsessive but forbidden relationship with Antonio (Paul Woodson) and the repressed incestuous and sexual attractions of Ferdinand (Alexander Cobb) set up the ensuing plot nicely, particularly when he castrates the hanging bull and blood rushes from its genitals. Gross. I have seen many attempts to provide motivation for the villain Bosola (Nicholas Tennant), but here he is motiveless and blustering, his shouting in the early scenes simply adding to the audience's frustration and disgust.
The executioners are big sexy boys supporting Bosola who becomes the executioner, having been the tombmaker. It would be hard for the audience not to have some modern parallels in mind and only those incapable of thinking in metaphorical terms could avoid the warnings of horror.
Blood soon begins to seep across the stage and towards the end the mad people are in white, contrasting with the thugs in black but all trying to negotiate their way across the increasingly bloody and slippery stage. The whole set becomes a metaphorical prison of death. But Webster does allow a glimpse of an alternative world in the minor characters Delio (Greg Barnett) and Cariola (Amanda Hadingue) who offer an alternative world of moral normality.
The play and production are gloomy (with dark lighting) and inevitably disastrous and I thought Aberg did a tremendous job in presenting so little for us to empathise with. All except Delio and Cariola are morally flawed and even Cariola succumbs to trying to save herself by lying at the end. But I did tire of it when the last ten or fifteen minutes simply reiterated what had gone before. Until then, however, my attention was fully held and my brain was active.
This is not a play for the squeamish and it certainly isn't a producton for them. But I think there is much to admire in it.
Where better to return to after seeing it than the welcoming comfort of Moss Cottage where you will have a warm welcome and no dead animals or pools of blood?
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Alongside the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Prince Albert has made a call to action, asking around 100 high-level guests to lend their voices to the plight of the polar regions and support the Two Poles, a Common Future initiative.
The Prince Albert-led talk, Polar Oceans: Driving Force of the Global Ocean, at the United Nations Ocean Conference, held from 28th June to 1st July in Lisbon, drew over a hundred high-level guests to hear about the current situation in the polar regions.
Held by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, alongside the Oceanographic Institute and the Océano Azul Foundation, a panel of scientists, polar experts and artists came together to discuss the importance of the polar oceans as "vectors of global ocean and climate change, but also the need to contribute to better hear the messages of scientists."
In his opening speech, Prince Albert said that, "the Poles constitute an essential link in the oceanic system (…) both as regards to oceanic balances, those of species, currents and major planetary fluxes, as well as with regard to the preservation of the climate. For my part, I would like to underline the extent to which this role is also political, as the Poles concentrate, like a laboratory, most of the questions that we face when it comes to acting for the oceans."
He went on to explain that there are solutions, saying the "prospects for solutions, in particular through a certain number of lines of work whose effectiveness we know" are in sight.
The first session, moderated by Dr Renuka Badhe, Executive Secretary of the European Polar Board, recalled the importance of the Arctic and Southern Oceans on a global scale, but also underscored the need for collaborative and inclusive work. Teacher Michael Meredith, oceanographer and science leader at the British Antarctic Survey, said that there is only one ocean and it provides connectivity on a planetary scale. However, the circulation of ocean currents is already changing and will continue to change in the future with repercussions both on our climate and on ecosystems and global populations. Unfortunately, our current ability to predict the timing and magnitude of these changes in the Poles is still limited, which hampers the implementation of efficient climate policies.
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Initiating the Polar Ocean Action Plans as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science is an important step, said Dr Sian Henley, Lecturer in Marine Science at the University of Edinburgh and Vice President of the Southern Ocean Observing System.
Next up, Florence Colleoni, Glaciologist and Paleoclimatologist at the National Institute of Oceanography and applied geophysics (OGS) and Richard Bellerby, Scientific Director for Climate and Oceans at the Norwegian Institute of Water Research, spoke about loss of sea ice, acidification and the effects of these two phenomena globally.
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The points it touches on are addressing the fact that there is a problem, increasing investment in polar research, minimising pressure on the regions, building collaboration between the Arctic and Antarctic communities, and being a voice for the regions.
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A limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2I model of muscular dystrophy identifies corrective drug compounds for dystroglycanopathies.
Serafini PR1, Feyder MJ1, Hightower RM2,3, Garcia-Perez D2, Vieira NM1, Lek A1, Gibbs DE1, Moukha-Chafiq O4, Augelli-Szafran CE4, Kawahara G5, Widrick JJ1, Kunkel LM1,6,7, Alexander MS2,3,8.
Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
UAB Center for Exercise Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Southern Research, Department of Chemistry, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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Zebrafish are a powerful tool for studying muscle function owing to their high numbers of offspring, low maintenance costs, evolutionarily conserved muscle functions, and the ability to rapidly take up small molecular compounds during early larval stages. Fukutin-related protein (FKRP) is a putative protein glycosyltransferase that functions in the Golgi apparatus to modify sugar chain molecules of newly translated proteins. Patients with mutations in the FKRP gene can have a wide spectrum of clinical symptoms with varying muscle, eye, and brain pathologies depending on the location of the mutation in the FKRP protein. Patients with a common L276I FKRP mutation have mild adult-onset muscle degeneration known as limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2I (LGMD2I), whereas patients with more C-terminal pathogenic mutations develop the severe Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS)/muscle-eye-brain (MEB) disease. We generated fkrp-mutant zebrafish that phenocopy WWS/MEB pathologies including severe muscle breakdowns, head malformations, and early lethality. We have also generated a milder LGMD2I-model zebrafish via overexpression of a heat shock-inducible human FKRP (L276I) transgene that shows milder muscle pathology. Screening of an FDA-approved drug compound library in the LGMD2I zebrafish revealed a strong propensity towards steroids, antibacterials, and calcium regulators in ameliorating FKRP-dependent pathologies. Together, these studies demonstrate the utility of the zebrafish to both study human-specific FKRP mutations and perform compound library screenings for corrective drug compounds to treat muscular dystrophies.
Generation of FKRP-mutant zebrafish using TALENs.
(A) Schematic showing TALEN-mediated genomic targeting of the zebrafish fkrp locus. (B) Diagram of coding and noncoding exons of the zebrafish fkrp transcribed mRNA. Exon 3 is the only coding exon of the zebrafish fkrp gene. (C) Various FKRP-mutant zebrafish lines generated using TALEN-mediated genomic engineering. (D) PCR genotyping of zebrafish tail biopsies showing the 13-bp deletion at exon 3 of the zebrafish fkrp gene locus showing fkrp WT, heterozygous, and homozygous mutant zebrafish. (E) Western blot images of protein lysates of fkrp WT, heterozygous, and homozygous mutant zebrafish at 5 dpf. Immunoblots using antibodies against zebrafish FKRP, glycosylated α-dystroglycan (α-dag1), β-dystroglycan (β-dag1), laminin, and β-actin. (F) Brightfield and birefringence images of sibling (unaffected) and fkrp–/– (Δ13bp; affected) zebrafish at 5 dpf at low (×2) and high magnification (×10). The arrowhead indicates pericardiac edema in the fkrp–/– (Δ13bp) zebrafish. (G) Two additional fkrp-mutant lines, a 3-bp deletion (Δ3bp) deletion and a 5-bp insertion (+5bp), were also generated and showed a similar phenotype to the fkrp–/– Δ13bp homozygous mutants. Scale bars: 300 μm.
JCI Insight. 2018 Sep 20;3(18):e120493.
FKRP-mutant zebrafish have impaired locomotion and movement.
(A) Tracings of motion pathways of sibling (FKRP WT and heterozygotes), fkrp–/– (homozygotes), and sapje–/– (dystrophin) mutant zebrafish cohorts. (B) The average total distance traveled over the 15-minute tracking period for each individual zebrafish. (C) The average velocity (mm/s) of individual sibling, fkrp–/–, and sapje–/– zebrafish cohorts over the 15-minute tracking interval. Fifty zebrafish (n = 50) were tracked over 15 minutes in 5 separate experiments (n = 5 experimental replicates). (D) Average number of touch movements in individual sibling, fkrp–/–, and sapje–/– zebrafish cohorts 1 dpf in response to a touch stimulus. (E) Average peak force (in kilopascals [kPa]) in the dorsal skeletal muscles of individual sibling, fkrp–/–, and sapje–/– zebrafish cohorts 5 dpf normalized to cross-sectional area (CSA). Ten zebrafish (n = 10) were used for the physiological force measurements. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.005 by 2-tailed Student's t test. NS, not significant.
FKRP-mutant zebrafish have significantly impaired vascularization and increased unfolded protein response (UPR) transcripts.
(A) Reduced vasculature in the fkrp–/– zebrafish compared with sibling controls. The Tg(actc1b:RFP) (labels myofibers red) and flk1-GFP (labels vasculature green) transgenic alleles were bred onto the fkrp-mutant zebrafish strain background. Scale bars: 100 μm. (B) Intersegmental vessel length (ISV) is quantified in the fkrp–/– zebrafish compared to sibling controls. n = 5 zebrafish per cohort. (C) Real-time quantitative PCR of expression levels of UPR genes (atf4a, atf4b, atf6, atf6b, hspa5/BiP, ern1/IRE1, eif2ak3/PERK, xbp1) were measured and normalized to β-actin as housekeeping control. For all experiments, 5 zebrafish (n = 5) per cohort were used. *P < 0.05 by 2-tailed Student's t test.
Generation of a heat shock–inducible LGMD2I-model zebrafish.
(A) Schematic of the LGMD2I-model zebrafish. A heat shock–inducible zebrafish promoter (1.6-kb zebrafish hsp70l) drives expression of either human WT FKRP (full length) or L276I open reading frame (ORF). An IRES-eGFP fluorescent reporter protein is cotranscribed upon activation of the promoter using heat shock (raising the temperature of the embryos from 28.5°C to 38°C. (B) Brightfield image of heat shock–induced Tg[hsp70l-hFKRP(L276I)-IRES-eGFP] transgenic zebrafish showing LGMD2I pathology. These symptoms include muscle weakness resulting in tail bending (i), head and eye malformations (ii), and pericardiac edema (iii). Scale bar: 300 μm. (C) H&E histochemical staining of dorsal muscle from noninduced (no FKRP transgene expression) and induced (expression of human FKRP L276I transgene). Scale bar: 100 μm. (D) Western blot images of overexpressed (with or without heat shock [HS]) of human FKRP transgenic protein and a β-actin loading control from Tg[hsp70l-hFKRP(WT)-IRES-eGFP] and Tg[hsp70l-hFKRP(L276I)-IRES-eGFP] transgenic zebrafish.
Pentetic acid extends lifespan and ameliorates symptoms in LGMD2I zebrafish.
(A) Drug screening of select compounds in the LGMD2I-model zebrafish. Five select compounds were individually tested: sildenafil citrate (purple squares), pentetic acid (blue triangles), propantheline bromide (green squares), ethosuximide (orange circles), and aminophylline (gray diamonds) at a concentration of 2.5 μM per compound. WT (black circles) aged-matched, vehicle (0.01% DMSO in fish water; yellow diamonds), and untreated (red squares) control zebrafish cohorts were also used in comparison (n = 50 fish per treatment cohort). Zebrafish were measured for overall viability between 1 and 7 dpf. Error bars indicate SEM. (B) Ablation of LGMD2I pathology in zebrafish treated with pentetic acid (2.5 μM) compared with vehicle (0.01% DMSO in fish water) control zebrafish. Scale bar: 300 μm. *P < 0.05 by 2-way ANOVA with Tukey's HSD test.
Compounds structurally similar to pentetic acid can ameliorate pathologies and extend lifespan in LGMD2I zebrafish.
(A) List of compounds tested and their manufacturers. (B) Dorsal muscle birefringence and (C) pericardiac edema average percentages in the LGMD2I-model drug-treated fish. Average percentages affected were normalized to vehicle-treated (100%) LGMD2I-model fish. *P < 0.05 compared with pentetic acid (compound 1; black circles) by 2-way ANOVA with Tukey's HSD test, and the SEM is shown on the left side. NS, not significant when compared with pentetic acid (1; black circles) positive control. The following compounds were evaluated: vehicle (0.01% DMSO in fish water; black bar) was tested along with 1 (pentetic acid, black circles), 2 [(4R,4′R)-2,2′-(propane-2,2-diyl)bis(4-(tert-butyl)-4,5-dihydrooxazole); red circles], 3 (citric acid; green circles), 4 (diglycolic acid; blue circles), 5 (EDTA; purple circles), 6 (N-methyliminodiacetic acid; gray circles), 7 (triethanolamine; orange circles), and 8 (L-ascorbic acid, open circles). Twenty fish (n = 20) were tested for each compound pool.


Greetings. This email gives you information about Discover Life in America's up-coming general planning meeting in Gatlinburg,14-17 December. While we hope that you have already been invited by our committee chairs and team coordinators, this is our way of formally inviting you to participate and including those of you whom may not have been contacted. For those of you who haven't already put this meeting on your schedule, please forgive the short notice. While we have developed a "brain" since last December's meeting, we're still very much a new volunteer organization that is learning to work with our growing "body."
The goals of our meeting are to (1) develop and write a long-term strategic plan for Discover Life in America, including a mission statement and timeline, (2) develop detailed written 1-year plans for Discover Life in America's Science, Education, Development, Information Management, Communications, and Finance committees and the ATBI's Design, Taxonomy, Collecting, Sorting, Curation, Web, Database, Business, Education and Outreach teams, (3) assign responsibilities for accomplishing and evaluating the success of these plans, (4) develop outlines for several funding proposals, and (5) get to know each other and share ideas.
Here is some information to help you plan for this meeting. Updates and details will be posted as they become available under "Events" at <www.discoverlife.org>.
Monday, 14 December -- Assemble, Field Trips, Open House, Get-to-Know Reception 8:00 - 17:00 -- Twin Creeks "Research Park" will host an open house all day. This will include visits to our demonstration plot. This open house is being organized by Chuck Parker <chuck_parker@usgs.gov>. Although appointments are not necessary, you may wish to drop him a line if you have special interests.
Starting 14:00 -- Mystery tour -- by popular demand, suggestions being accepted.
If you wish to go on a field trip, please contact Dana Soehn <dana_soehn@nps.gov>.
Starting 19:00 -- Get-to-know reception at Glennstone Lodge.
Friday -- Our planning meeting will be followed on Friday by Discover Life in America's Board of Directors' meeting in Knoxville. Details of Friday's agenda and venue will be posted on the Web for Board members and others of you who wish to attend.
The meeting held the Glennstone Lodge/Days Inn in Gatlinburg. Details on travel and lodging will be placed on the Web under "Events." We ask that you MAKE YOUR OWN reservations by calling the Glennstone 800-362-9522 or 423-436-9361. Charles Maynard has arranged for us to have a block of rooms. Please tell them that you are with Discover Life in America. Although the exact price is still under negotiation, for those of you who will be contributing your own funds, we expect that double rooms will be between $45 and $55 per night. Please contact Nancy Keohane <nancy_keohane@nps.gov> (phone: 423-430-4740) if you need help making travel arrangements.
Please R.S.V.P. to Heather Alley letting her know if you plan to attend. Let her know when you will arrive and leave so that we can better plan our logistic needs. She can be reached via email at <alley@discoverlife.org>, phone: 706-542-6676, or FAX: 706-542-3344. For those of you who can afford it, we intend to charge a registration fee of between $50 and $75 to cover the cost of food and beverages.
We have limited funds to cover the costs of this meeting and are asking those of you who have grants, travel budgets, and who can otherwise afford it to cover your own costs. For those on limited budgets, we have some funds to cover your lodging and food, thanks to the generosity of the Natural History Association and the Friends of Great Smokies. They have raised this money through their grass-roots efforts -- the Park's gift shop, chocolate sales, benefit concerts, etc. If enough people contribute to the cost of the meeting by covering their own expenses, we should be able to cover the expenses of all those in need of help. Our goal is to enable everyone who wishes to attend to do so. What we save on this meeting we will use to support science and educational projects this spring and summer. If you need free lodging, we can provide you a room, so long as you are willing to share it with a roommate. Please let Heather know if you need free lodging. She can help you select a roommate from our large selection of heavy-smoking, noisy, eccentrics.
Discover Life in America has set aside $3,000 to help invitees with airfares. We intend to divide this amount equally among those invited who request travel assistance. If 60 people ask for support, it's only $50 each. If only a few folks ask, then we can cover their full fares. We hope that this is fair. We wish to avoid value judgements of whether one taxonomist, for example, is or isn't more important than another, or an teacher, or a databaser. In an ALL taxa study, we hope to support the study of all taxa. Clearly, we need to work together to raise funds, sell our vision, and expand the resources that we can thus share. Again, we ask that you please try to contribute to your own travel expenses and request support from us only if you have no other means of support. Again, please let Heather know if you need help with travel costs.
The deadline for making hotel arrangement at our block rate is THURSDAY, 3 DECEMBER. Please call the Glennstone Inn and email Heather with your plans by then.
Our Web site <www.discoverlife.org> has a "Get Involved" link that allows you to enter your name, address, phone numbers, etc. Please go to this site and fill in our less-than-5-minute form. Doing so will make our logistics much easier. You can retrieve such information on others through our site's "Who's Involved" link.
For those of you on a tight schedule and who wish to contribute the most to our planning efforts, we urge that you to participate on Tuesday and Wednesday. For those of you who wish to get the best overview of our vision and activities, we urge you to attend on Thursday.
We ask that our committee chairs and team coordinators please forward this invitation to their members in the likely event that we will miss some key individuals in our mailings.


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Betul Bazar è una suddivisione dell'India, classificata come nagar panchayat, di 9.645 abitanti, situata nel distretto di Betul, nello stato federato del Madhya Pradesh. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe V (da 5.000 a 9.999 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 21° 51' 22 N e 77° 55' 39 E e ha un'altitudine di 664 .

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Betul Bazar assommava a 9.645 persone, delle quali 4.964 maschi e 4.681 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 1.143, dei quali 597 maschi e 546 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 7.067, dei quali 3.946 maschi e 3.121 femmine.

Note

Centri abitati del Madhya Pradesh

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This habit of prayer then, recurrent prayer, morning, noon, and night, is one discriminating point in Scripture Christianity, as arising from the text with which I began, "our conversation is in heaven." In a word, there was no barrier, no cloud, no earthly object, interposed between the soul of the primitive Christian and its Saviour and Redeemer. Christ was in his heart, and therefore all that came from his heart, his thoughts, words, and actions, savoured of Christ.
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I'm looking for a reasonably priced teleprompter software and support rig for the iPad2.
There are several on the market from various suppliers. Can anyone recommend an easy-to-use product that worked well for under $1K?
Cameras are JVC GY-HM700U and JVC GY-HM100U.
I recently bought the i-pad based prompter from DataVision. I believe that this is sold under more than one name but this version includes the flight case. This unit suits a variety of cameras via a fairly flexible mounting system but I have only used it so far with a Canon DSLR. I suspect it will be more awkward to use with the smallest consumer camcorders though as there will be little room to fasten the cloth used to seal (lightwise) the angled glass to the camera. You use one of two apps to provide the teleprompting both of which are mentioned in the manual. One app works (for the left-right reversed text needed in the reflected view the reader gets) and the other does not. It has a remote control that allows the reader to set the speed and pause the text. I think it was around $500 equivalent. One thing I have not tried is filming outside on a really sunny day. It seems very high contrast and fairly bright but I cannot say for sure it will work there.
My presenter was blown away and so, to some extent, was I - from the front. The quality of the displayed text is fantastic and the controlability is good. The remote control is a bit small and along with the lead a bit vulnerable but works OK. There are two things you are likely to break; the remote and the glass and both are quite expensive to replace - what would you expect though I guess. The software is easy to use. It is excellent to get the included flight case - and you do need one.
The downside? Apart from the high cost of the spares it is the all-to-common point about supplied flight cases being designed for the parts and not the completed unit. What is supplied is more-or-less a kit. You have to assemle it (the instructions are not great) and then you have a working prompter. To be fair you will have to reconfigure it for different sized cameras and to do things like to change it from front-of-lens to under-lens configurations. I find I have to almost completely disassemble the thing to pack it though which is a pain.
In terms of how well it works for the presenter versus its price though - fantastic.
Panasonic Camcorder 1080p, Nikon SLR with video acquisition 720p, Sony Vegas editing software.
And thanks very much for your prompt and helpful response. What is the model number of the iPad prompter system?
Now there is a challenge. It is not clear what moddel it is but the instruction manual says "iprompter for ipad"
Here's one for $350. Works great.
Get the Maxi one ($260). Works very well and super popular. We have used it on full day productions outdoors all around Sydney without any problems.
These guys don't sell it with a rig to attach to the camera so you set up on its own tripod in front of whatever camera you are using. Works really well for us. The glass is portrait which helps cos eyes don't wander so much left to right.
We saw the prompt-it guys at the SMPTE show in Sydney last year and everyone was buying one.
Oh and I've used the lcd4video one once. It worked but flimsy and wobbly compared to the prompt-it one.
Has anyone come across these before? http://www.autocue.com/ipad-teleprompter/ Is there a big difference in quality compared to the ones mentioned previously and is it worth the price difference?
really the main difference is that you can attach your camera AND the teleprompter to the same tripod. I find that annoying and the extra weight can make your tripod wobbly (depending on the tripod of course).
Some WANT the teleprompter and the camera on the same tripod. In that case, the one I have (Maxi) is not ideal. But how many times are you going to have the talent walking around of moving? I haven't, ever. My friend works for Channel 10 and has the Maxi and goes overseas and covers all sorts of news. The separate tripod is a godsend as he can quickly remove the camera & tripod and run off to film something else without affecting the talent/script setup.
The glass on the "autocue" is wider and is in a triangle shape. Larger glass at an odd shape = more fragile and more expensive.
The difference in price is madness! I bought this one 2 years ago: ( http://www.ikancorp.com/productdetail.php?id=285 ) thinking that price would make it better and more professional.
It was a NIGHTMARE! It took us 2 hours to set up the first time!!! Subsequent set ups took approx 15 minutes and it was HEAVY and took lots of space. I hated it and sold it for half the price on ebay. The Autocue one look similar with screws & parts and fixing bits etc... too complicated!
The one we use (Prompt-it Maxi) fits in my laptop bag or Lowepro XDCAM camera bag. I set it up in 2 minutes on a separate $40 tripod. I haven't broken the glass in 1.5 years. Even if I did it costs $100 to replace so not so expensive.


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GOP Convention Grothman warns of 'disaster' for country if Trump loses
Grothman warns of 'disaster' for country if Trump loses
U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, directed GOP activists to memorize a speech for their neighbors and others who don't like that Donald Trump tweets so much to make sure they understand it would be a "disaster for this country if he loses."
Grothman laid out the talking points for them: Trump cut down illegal immigration, tore up NAFTA, stood up to the Veterans Administration, fought the prescription drug companies and paved the way for the U.S. to become an energy exporter for the first time.
"We have a different kind of president," Grothman said. "You have to remind the public of what a caring president we have."
Grothman, whose voice cracked several times during his speech, also credited Trump with a drop in murders during the first two years of his term, though he allowed it "might not go that way in the fourth year." But Grothman insisted that was due to "goofy mayors."
He also urged Republicans to research the founders of Black Lives Matter, saying they're Marxists. He charged that Marxists in general want to destroy the nuclear family because they fear families will produce citizens more loyal to their relatives than to the government.
He also warned against the push to repeal qualified immunity for police officers.
Grothman said that push is meant to undercut officers anytime they arrest someone, tackle someone or are "too rough."
He insisted the only one stopping that change form happening is Trump.
"The day he leaves, you're going to see a change in law that when a policeman goes to arrest somebody, they're going to be looking over their shoulder," Grothman said.
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Wan-Bissaka Selected by England Under-21s
Palace defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka has received his first call-up to the England under-21 side, with the right-back in contention to play in the Three Lions' upcoming Euro qualifiers with Holland and Latvia.
The 20-year-old has started the season as Roy Hodgson's first-choice right-back and currently has 10 Eagles appearances to his name, having debuted back in February against Tottenham Hotspur.
Since then, his performance have been rewarded by the Three Lions at under-20 level, with the south Londoner winning caps against Poland and Portugal in March.
Now he has been handed a chance to step up after being selected by Aidy Boothroyd's under-21s, who are on the brink of qualifying for the 2019 UEFA European Championships in Italy next June.
England currently top their group, five points ahead of nearest challengers Holland with four games remaining. The two teams face off at Norwich City's Carrow Road on Thursday 6th August, before England take on Latvia four days later in Jelgava.


Two Alma Robbery Suspects Arrested In Garlington Apt.
Two Alma men wanted in connection with separate armed robberies in Alma over the holidays were arrested in Waycross Wednesday as they hid out at a Garlington Avenue apartment, said Waycross Police Capt. Hilton Boyett.
Daron Davon Smith, 21, who lives on Church Street in Alma, and Brandon K. Smith, 27, of 14th Street, Alma, were lodged in the Ware County jail awaiting transport to Alma, said Boyett.
Alma Police Chief Brandon Sellers said the Smiths, who are not related, were wanted in separate cases of armed robbery last month.
The second robbery involved Daron Davon Smith on New Year's Eve when a robbery took place on Staten Circle in Alma. Sellers said nobody was hurt, although Smith fired a gun and the bullet came within inches of a person's head.
Police here were tipped off at 10:50 p.m. that the two were thought to be in an apartment in the 300 block of Garlington Avenue.
Boyett said when police arrived, one of the men, Brandon Smith, tried to leave through an upstairs window but then re-entered the apartment. As lights were turned on inside the apartment, police saw the second man walking through the apartment and detained him. He at first told them his name was Anthony Florence, but then admitted his real name and that he was wanted by police in Alma, Boyett said.
Brandon Smith had a bottle in his pocket containing Schedule IV drugs and, Boyett said, a local charge of rugs possession was administered.


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The weekend's Absa Premiership action saw leaders Bidvest Wits fall to their first away defeat of the season, Maritzburg United broke their long winless streak, and the Soweto derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates ended all square.
Maritzburg got the weekend off to a rollicking start with a 3-1 home win over Polokwane City on Friday night. The result – inspired by a brace from Thabiso Kutumela – broke a 14-game winless streak and was also the first match in which they have scored three or more goals since January 2018.
Saturday afternoon could prove to be a key one in the title race – certainly as far as Mamelodi Sundowns are concerned. Having won in midweek against Black Leopards, they would have been pleased to see table-topping Wits beaten 2-1 at Highlands Park, while third-placed Orlando Pirates were held 1-1 by Kaizer Chiefs.
The Buccaneers, who cancelled out Daniel Cardoso's penalty early in the second half with a late equaliser from Thembinkosi Lorch, were at least able to bring up a record 12th consecutive unbeaten game against the Amakhosi across all competitions.
Saturday's night games featured a 2-0 away win for Chippa United at Free State Stars (who have now lost six of their last seven outings), while AmaZulu ended Cape Town City's strong run of late with a 1-0 win at King Zwelithini Stadium.
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Women make up solely 28% of the workforce in science, know-how, engineering and math (STEM), and men vastly outnumber girls majoring in most STEM fields in faculty. The gender gaps are particularly high in a few of the fastest-growing and highest-paid jobs of the longer term, like pc science and engineering. It's nice that the article talked about that curiosity is the bottom of all training that is associated to science. My son is only seven years previous, but he has been asking me lots of questions on gravity and the way it works. It would in all probability be a good idea for me to study up more on gravity so that I can reply a few of his questions.
Such engagement that lacks criticality is most evident in the demand for equal remedy regardless of pre-present situations reified, reinforced, and reproduced by institutions and methods. Traditionally excluded teams are sorely underrepresented amongst these empowered by society to transform these institutions and systems such that equality, equity, and inclusiveness are fostered and facilitated. For example, processes in pre-K-12 science training often operate as if a level enjoying area exists between college students historically included and college students historically excluded in science and science training. • Although passage of the Civil Rights Act of … Read More
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However, not all of students' conceptions may be characterized as unitary and systematic intuitive theories. According to Chi , along with false intuitive theories, people even have false beliefs and false mental fashions. There are also constraints on college students' ways of reasoning, similar to constraints on the nature of causal explanations, which may give rise to misinterpretations of scientific info.
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In Coursera's case, says Koller, the platform monitors the students' every mouse click on — "quiz submissions, forum posts, when and where a scholar pauses a lecture video, or rewinds, or moves to 1.5 pace". For example, the 7,200 college students who accomplished Agarwal's electric-circuits MOOC in spring 2012 included an eighty one-year-old man, a single mom with two youngsters, and a 15-yr-outdated prodigy from Mongolia who obtained an ideal rating on the final examination. Udacity's Introduction to Computer Science MOOC, presently its hottest, has enrolled more than 270,000 students.
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Walter Hughes Newton (* 10. Oktober 1880 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; † 10. August 1941 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1919 und 1929 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Minnesota im US-Repräsentantenhaus.

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Walter Newton besuchte die öffentlichen Schulen seiner Heimat. Nach einem anschließenden Jurastudium an der University of Minnesota und seiner im Jahr 1905 erfolgten Zulassung als Rechtsanwalt begann er in Minneapolis in seinem neuen Beruf zu arbeiten. Zwischen 1914 und 1918 arbeitete er für den Bezirksstaatsanwalt im Hennepin County.

Politisch war Newton Mitglied der Republikanischen Partei. Bei den Kongresswahlen des Jahres 1918 wurde er im fünften Wahlbezirk von Minnesota in das US-Repräsentantenhaus in Washington, D.C. gewählt, wo er am 4. März 1919 die Nachfolge von Ernest Lundeen antrat. Nach fünf Wiederwahlen konnte er bis zum 30. Juni 1929 im Kongress verbleiben. In dieser Zeit wurden dort der 18. und der 19. Verfassungszusatz verabschiedet. Dabei ging es um das Verbot des Alkoholhandels und die bundesweite Einführung des Frauenwahlrechts.

Am 30. Juni 1929 legte Newton sein Mandat im Kongress nieder, um als Privatsekretär für Präsident Herbert C. Hoover zu arbeiten. Diesen Posten bekleidete er bis zum Ende von Hoovers Amtszeit am 3. März 1933. Danach wurde er Vorstandsmitglied der Smithsonian Institution. Bis 1934 saß er im Vorstand der Federal Home Loan Bank. In den folgenden Jahren arbeitete Newton wieder als Rechtsanwalt. Außerdem betätigte er sich als Schriftsteller. Im Jahr 1936 bewarb er sich erfolglos um die Rückkehr in den Kongress. Im Jahr 1938 wurde er Schlichter in Konkursverfahren. Diese Funktion übte Walter Newton bis zu seinem Tod am 10. August 1941 aus.

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Standing on Horsenden Lane in Greenford, Middlesex (just off the A40 Western Avenue), Perivale is an underground station on the western part of the Central Line. Until the early 1930s public transport in London was operated by a many separate private companies, together operating a fragmented service to passengers.
In 1933 the London Passenger Transport Act brought together public transport in London under the control of the London Passenger Transport Board. Tube lines, buses, coaches and trams were combined, although overground lines operated by the mainline railway companies were not included. Along with a massive merger and restructure of the combined assets of the disparate range of companies, London Transport embarked on a works programme to expand and improve the network. Essentially the private companies had barely managed to make a decent enough profit to reward shareholders and reinvest in the network, so much work was required.
Using deep tunnels to push out into the suburbs and then above-ground lines, the Underground network was to expand greatly in the proposed 'New Works Programme'. The 'New Works Programme' saw the development of new line extensions, additional tunnelling and track work, new and redeveloped stations and new rolling stock. The programme, introduced in 1935, planned for five year's development. However, the outbreak of the Second World War saw plans put on hold.
In post-war Britain London Transport was much less able to embark on an ambitious programme of works. Not only did the network suffer bomb-damage, but rolling stock, tracks and stations had been pressed into prolonged war service. Reinstating pre-war levels of service took priority over new developments. Perivale Underground Station was one such example where the outbreak of hostilities had thwarted developments. Construction began in 1938 to designs by Australian architect Brian Lewis (1906-1991) but it was not completed until 1947, and then only in reduced form. A wing containing shops and a tower were dropped leaving a scaled down scheme.
Perivale Station is built around a reinforced concrete frame, evidenced by the radiating concrete beams of the ticket hall ceiling. The front elevation is clad in red brick and has a concave, curved facade. At street level there are two wide entrances either side of a central curved wall with four poster display panels. Each side of the building has a shop unit, either side of the entrances. The western shop is the larger of the two extending out with a convex frontage. Above is a deep, projecting canopy in a serpentine 'S' shape. The metal canopy features illuminated blue-glass panels. The original panels carried separately 'Central Line' lettering, the London Underground roundel and the name 'Perivale Station'. The panels were repeated in sequence across the entire canopy, forming a 'ribbon' of blue glass.
Above, is a large clerestory window, providing illumination to the ticket hall behind. The double height window is formed of slender, tall windows between regularly-spaced concrete mullions, with a short return down each side of the building. The window has a thick concrete lintel on top, and on either side, a London Underground roundel mounted at the base of a tall pole. Above, the frontage is topped with a deep, brick parapet. The bricks have a solider course, unlike the stretcher bond of the the rest of the frontage.
The platforms and tracks are set above the ticket hall concourse and are accessed by a curved staircase. The tracks are carried on a viaduct behind the station. The central section of both the platforms is covered with a cantilevered canopy, providing shelter to waiting passengers. The surviving buildings of the former Hoover Factory complex at Perivale can be seen from the platforms.
The station building was awarded Grade II-listed status on 20 July 2011.


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