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Fulham Palace, in Fulham, London, previously in the former English county of Middlesex, is a Grade I listed building with medieval origins and was formerly the principal residence of the Bishop of London. The site was the country home of the bishops from the 11th century until 1973. Though still owned by the Church of England, the palace, managed by the Fulham Palace Trust (registered charity 1140088) houses a number of restored historic rooms and a museum documenting its long history. The property resides next to Bishops Park and contains a large botanic garden. The palace garden is ranked Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

The Palace is open daily and is free to visit. According to figures released by the Fulham Palace Trust, over 390,000 people visited Fulham Palace in 2015/2016.

History

Origins
Prehistoric (6000 BC–AD 43)

Evidence of prehistoric activity dating from the late Mesolithic and early Neolithic age was uncovered by various archaeological investigations undertaken since the early 1970s, depicting the use of struck flint. The site appears to have been an isolated eyot within the braided river channel of the River Thames. Later prehistoric activity dating to the Bronze Age, was revealed in the form of a possible barrow, whilst there is limited evidence for a late Iron Age occupation.

Roman period (AD 43–AD 410)

After a period of abandonment, the site was reoccupied during the late Roman period. Much of the material retrieved is domestic in origin and appears to suggest a small agricultural community was established on the banks of the Thames. It may have taken the form of a villa on this site or approximate to the neighbouring All Saints Church.

Saxon period (AD 410–1066)

There is little evidence of Saxon activity on the Fulham Palace site, although some sherds of early Saxon pottery have been recovered. The Manor of Fulham was acquired by Bishop Waldhere from Bishop Tyrhtel in AD 704. It stretched from modern-day Chiswick in the west to Chelsea on the east; and from Harlesden in the northwest and Kensal Green in the northeast.

Medieval period (1066–1485)

The earliest evidence of Medieval life at Fulham Palace was a hearth that dates to around 1080, probably belonging to the Saxo-Norman Manor. The first historical reference to a Bishop of London residing at Fulham Palace arose when Robert de Sigello (Bishop of London) was held captive at Fulham Palace during The Anarchy. The Medieval Palace was established around what is now the Palace's eastern courtyard. The first reference to the Palace's chapel at this time was from 1231. Plans drawn up by Stiff Leadbetter prior to the redevelopment of the site in the late 18th century locate the chapel and its associated buildings beneath much of the 18th-century structure that still stands today. Although various fragments of stonework associated with the chapel have been uncovered, its form remains elusive, only one Parliamentary Survey, undertaken by William Dickes during the Civil War in 1647, described it.

At some point between 1439 and 1440, Henry VI and his entourage visited. Following his departure, it would take four days for the rooms and halls to be cleaned. Shortly after, a shingle board was taken from the Fulham Church to cover and repair the palace hall roof, and palings (fence posts) were mended between the 'house husbandry (farming area), great garden, and vyne garden.' A new bucket was also purchased for the well at the cost of 6d. The well is understood to have been built in 1426. Further buildings alluded to include a larder, a hayloft, and a stable.

Tudor period (1485–1603)

Substantial alterations were made to the Palace during the late 15th century, a period that witnessed the construction of the current great hall and the Tudor Courtyard, which still stands today. It is assumed that the development was undertaken by either Bishop Thomas Kempe c. 1480 or Bishop Richard FitzJames (1506-1522), principally because FitzJames' coat of arms appears on the south side of the Tudor court buildings. In addition, analysis of the timbers within the great hall roof suggests that the oak used was felled in the spring of 1493, whilst the gate to the Tudor arched entrance contains timber felled in the spring of 1495. A two-year time frame for such a considerable building project certainly seems appropriate (at least in terms of partial construction). If the timber dates are accurate, then the court and hall were both built by Bishop Richard Hill. The Bishop would not have much time to enjoy his new residence, though, as he died in 1496.

The current structure, built by Bishop Richard FitzJames, dates from the reign of Henry VII (1485–1509). The structure underwent numerous modifications and alterations: the west courtyard is from the Tudor Period; the east courtyard is Georgian, the great hall is late-medieval; the eastern end of the building was renovated in Gothic style in the late 18th century; the east courtyard was classicised in the early 19th century, and the chapel was constructed in 1867.

Fulham Palace is a Grade I-listed building standing within a scheduled ancient monument. A number of structures on the property are Grade II-listed buildings including the chapel, moat bridge and attached piers, stables, walls of the walled garden, vinery, and bothies.

The palace garden

The garden at Fulham Palace has been one of the most important botanical gardens since the 16th century and is the second oldest in London. Bishop Grindal (c. 1519 – 1583) built a Tudor walled garden and a series of parterre gardens. He is credited with the introduction of the tamarisk tree to England and grew grapes that were sent to Elizabeth I.

In the early part of the 17th century, the gardens at Fulham Palace appear to have suffered from some unsympathetic attention. The antiquary John Aubrey records among his memoranda, "the Bishop of London did cutte-down a noble Clowd of trees at Fulham", occasioning the sharp remark from Sir Francis Bacon, a dedicated gardener, "that he was a good Expounder of dark places." This changed with Bishop Henry Compton (1675–1713) who introduced many new plant species to England in the gardens at Fulham Palace, including the American magnolia, M. virginiana, Liriodendron, Liquidambar and the first American azalea grown in England, Rhododendron viscosum. In his heated "stoves" he grew the first coffee tree in England. The red horse chestnut, a hybrid of Aesculus hippocastanum and the American Aesculus pavia, was still noted in Fulham Palace gardens as late as 1751. His gardener was George London

By 1681, the gardens at Fulham Palace were already remarkable, as John Evelyn noted when he visited them. Bishop Compton's gardener in the early years was George London, who started a famous nursery at Brompton the year of Evelyn's visit. By 1686, William Penn's gardener was hoping to exchange the exotic flora of Pennsylvania for seedlings and slips of trees and shrubs and seeds from Fulham Palace gardens. Compton's staunch defense of his former pupils, the Princesses Mary and Anne, led to his appointment as Deputy Superintendent of the Royal Gardens to William III and Mary II, and as Commissioner for Trade and Plantations. In the colonies, Compton had a botanical correspondent in John Banister, who was sent first to the West Indies and then to Virginia, and who, before his untimely death, sent Bishop Compton drawings, seeds, and herbarium specimens from which the Bishop's close friend John Ray compiled the first published account of North American flora, in his Historia Plantarum (1688).

World War I
In 1918, part of the grounds of the palace was converted into allotments, for growing food to help the war effort. The palace itself formed part of Fulham military hospital. After the war, the church found it increasingly difficult to maintain such a large, expensive building. The Bishop of London at the time, Arthur Winnington-Ingram, offered to give up the palace and live in two rooms as he had while the palace was being used "for the purpose of the National Mission" (the war effort). However, the bishop was unwilling to let the palace pass into secular hands.

World War II
Parts of the palace were damaged by bombing, and after the war, the church found it increasingly difficult to maintain this large, expensive historic building. In 1954, the Church Commissioners' architect described the palace as "badly planned and inconvenient". After many years of indecision the church authorities vacated the palace in 1973.

The Palace moat
The Palace's moat was nearly  in length. It was the largest domestic moated site in medieval England but its origin is unknown. The first known reference to the moat was in a 1392 document that refers to magna fossa ('great ditch') but it is thought to be much older. Its distance from the palace suggests that it might have had a function other than defence. An alternative idea is that it was built by the Danes as a safeguard against flooding by the Thames. In 1976, the moated enclosure was designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

The moat was filled in with debris in the 1920s, at the request of the bishop of the time, Arthur Winnington-Ingram. Despite this, the entire moat still exists, underground, as an unbroken circuit. In 2010, an excavation of the moat began as part of a £8 million renovation of the palace and adjoining Bishops Park.

The Tait chapel

The Tait chapel at Fulham Palace, the fourth on the site, was designed by William Butterfield for Bishop Tait in 1866–7. It is dedicated to the Blessed Trinity and it cost £1869.
Damaged by a bomb in World War II, the chapel was reorganized in the 1950s for Bishop Wand. The Salviati mosaic reredos was moved to the west end. The east window, destroyed in the war, was replaced by a new window by Ninian Comper in 1956. It shows "The Risen Saviour" with the message "Feed my sheep"; Bishops Creighton and Wand stand on either side. The top window commemorates Wand's son who died in a mountaineering accident in 1934. The west window by Clayton and Bell survived.
Butterfield's patterned brickwork was painted over by Brian Thomas and students from Byam Shaw School of Art in 1953. The north wall painting shows: "The Fall" with Adam; the nativity is below; Atonement with the crucifixion, and the Last Supper with the gift of the Holy Spirit. The south wall: St Peter and a vision of unclean beasts, the stoning of St Stephen, the risen Christ with two hands of God the Father, Conversion of St Paul.

Fulham Palace today

After the Bishops of London left the Palace in 1973, in 1975, the property was leased for 100 years by Hammersmith Council for the purpose of opening a museum and art gallery. After this, the palace and gardens suffered a period of neglect. In 1990, a trust was established to oversee the property in collaboration with the council.

The grounds of the palace originally covered more than , though today only  remain. Although the Palace has its own chapel, the garden adjoins the churchyard of the neighbouring parish church, All Saints Church, Fulham, where several former bishops are buried. The allotments planted during the war still survive; many are still in use, allowing local people to grow their own vegetables, fruit and flowers.

Some of the ancient trees in and around Fulham Palace remain to this day, and visitors can still see the knot garden and wisteria which survive in the Palace's walled gardens. A large holm oak (Quercus ilex) is believed to be 500 years old and has been designated as one of the Great Trees of London.

Restoration of the palace and grounds
The Fulham Palace Restoration Project began in the 2000s and was carried out in three phases. The first phase, completed in 2006, restored the east wing of the palace and part of the west wing including the Tudor courtyard at the cost of £4 million. The second phase focused on the walled garden, the outbuildings, and the moat, and was completed in 2011, costing £7 million. The third phase was completed in 2019 and includes a new museum as well as significant restoration work to the brickwork in the Tudor courtyard and the Tudor great hall. Funding for all three phases came from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Fulham Palace Trust.

Museum and art gallery

In 1992, the Museum of Fulham Palace was set up in Bishop Howley's Dining Room and Bishop Porteus's Library (named after Bishop Beilby Porteus, 1731–1809), in the early 19th century part of the Palace. It contained some of the paintings that once hung in the building, stained glass, carved fragments of masonry and a bishop's cope, as well as displays describing the palace's history.

The lost manuscript of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (1620–47), an important founding document of the United States, was discovered in the library in 1855, and first published the next year. No one knows how it made its way there from America, but in 1897, it was given to Thomas F. Bayard, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and repatriated to New England.

The palace's art collection includes a number of notable portraits: two 1798 works by Benjamin West, St Margaret of Scotland and Thomas a Becket; an oil on canvas of Field Marshal George Wade by Adriaen van Diest; an oil on canvas of Beilby Porteus by John Hoppner; and a Reginald Henry Lewis oil on canvas of William Wand.

Visitor access
The house and garden are open daily with free admission. The museum and historic rooms are open from 10.30 - 17.00 (10.30 - 16.00 in the winter). The restored walled garden is open daily from 10.15 - 16.15 (10.15 - 15.45 in the winter). The botanic garden is open daily from dawn to dusk. The café is in what was once Bishop Howley's dining room, and now serves lunches and light refreshments.

The palace can be accessed from Fulham Palace Road, close to the northern end of Putney Bridge, as well as Bishop's Park and All Saints Church, Fulham. The nearest Underground station is

See also
 History of London

Notes

References

External links

 Chandler, Andrew, The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: the Church Commissioners Retrieved January 2012

 Images of England page with listing details Retrieved January 2012

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The Wrangler left 3090 Downing Street last month.
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Tosh's closed over a decade ago.
But once again, the family was overextended. A couple of members split off and took over the Arizona restaurant, the Tech Center restaurant shut down — and the original Hacienda was put on the block in 2006 because of its unpaid loans to the city, all HUD Community Development Block Grants.
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This has been a year for Indians all across the world to sit up and take pride in their identity, as notable Indians have achieved great successes in their respective fields. As the year draws to a close, here's taking a look at the famous Indians who've made us proud.
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To think that my career started nearly 20 years ago is surreal. I am honored and proud to be recognized tonight at the Marrakesh Film Festival. Thank you, truly, to everyone who came out to Jemaa el Fna square. #Gratitude. Thank you @melitatoscan @festivaldufilmdemarrakech ❤
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Our very own Guddu bhaiyya is currently shooting for a Hollywood production, his third outing after Victoria and Abdul and Fast 7 in which he is paired opposite Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot. The film, an adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death in the Nile, the film is amongst the most looked forward to films of next year. Ali, despite a slew of offers and a packed slate for 2020, is constantly being offered more work in the West currently.
Can you miss a face and forget it at the same time?
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With two comedy specials to his name, Vir became the only Indian comic to have sold out 36 American shows appealing to over 50,000 people. His other special sold out three shows at Just For Laughs which is one of the biggest comedy festivals in the world. His show was notably amongst the best and highest reviewed shows at the venue. He also played the Edinburgh fringe festival and continued his golden run. He even starred in the ABC show Whiskey Cavalier.
Me thinking about how I've got one more week to wear this christmasy shirt.
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Guneet Monga
As an Indian producer, holding an Oscar – Monga who has produced some of the most beautiful gems of the last decade including Masaan and Lunchbox, brought great glory to the country. As a co-producer of Period: End of a Sentence, Monga endeavoured to stir up a conversation around the taboos of Menstruation and how it directly affects the education of the girl child in India. It's the first time a part-Indian production won at the Academy through the gongs of AR Rahman, Resul Pookutty and the late Satyajit Ray Stand tall to make India proud.
Wearing my mom's saree… she would always tell me don't touch my clothes as you would ruin them (drop food… like always). After 12 years today I have dared to wear my mom's saree because it's a super important day. Please god, help me not drop any food today ❤ #formyma
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Till then you guys stay tuned to this space for more updates, news, and gossip.
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What Real (Not Greenwashing) Circular Fashion Looks Like
by Verena Erin | posted in Activism, conscious fashion |
This post is kindly sponsored by Tonlé, thanks for supporting the amazing brands that partner with My Green Closet!
Awareness around sustainable fashion is growing and customers are demanding more responsible products. A recent survey found 67% of consumers consider sustainable materials as part of their purchasing decisions and 63% take a brand's general approach to sustainability into account. And brands are responding to these demands, with genuine efforts and also with an unfortunate increase in greenwashing.
"Circularity" has become a big buzzword with sustainability, and while it can represent a new, important shift in the industry, it's also used in misleading and deceptive ways. Companies sticking a clothing collection box in their stores or using a bit of recycled materials does not magically make them "circular".
We need brands to go deeper and make real, holistic changes that aren't just for marketing and press coverage. If a brand truly cares about helping to build a better industry and reducing their impact and waste, they need to be looking at the entire supply chain and life of the garments.
Circularity Is So Much More Than Recycling
The concept of circularity in fashion is often misunderstood. We typically see it as taking the "waste" or end of a garment's life and bringing that back around to the start of the supply chain, i.e. recycling the materials into a new garment — but it's so much more.
Tonlé is a brand I love in which circularity is threaded through all stages of their business. Unlike many "sustainable" brands who use an eco-friendly fabric and call it a day, the brands I really trust and respect are those where sustainably is a core value — brands like Tonlé who are constantly challenging the status quo and looking for innovative solutions while producing garments with heart, soul, care, and compassion.
Tonlé is a great example and case study to learn more about circular fashion.
Circularity Starts With Design
Products need to be designed with intention, for longevity, and with its next use in mind, otherwise there is no chance at a successful circular system.
From the beginning, designers need to be thinking about how the garments can have as long of a life as possible. This might involve decisions such as:
Ignoring trends and instead developing a signature, timeless style for the brand
Paying attention to customer feedback
Designing with versatility in mind
Testing and selecting high-quality fabrics
Possibly opting for seasonless collections
Selecting high quality sewing and finishing techniques
Considering options for end-of-life, extending use, and upcycling/recycling
While brands might have different design directions, the commonality is intentional and thoughtful design which considers the greater impact of the garments. Tonlé incorporates many of these elements and they're always looking for ways to learn, grow, and offer more inclusive designs.
Your Greenwashing Is Showing
With fast fashion, "circularity" initiatives are flawed right from the start. Highly trend-driven, poor-quality pieces, and a high-turnover model for design, production, and consumption just has no chance at being successfully circular and part of a regenerative and restorative system.
If a brand is claiming circularity while constantly having new products in stores or over-producing billions of dollars of unsold clothing, it just doesn't add up.
Materials & Fabrics
When we view fabrics from a circularity standpoint, some key characteristics are:
Quality: Poor-quality materials are unfortunately most likely to quickly become waste
"Waste" Recovery/Reuse: Can materials that might otherwise end up as trash be rescued and further utilized?
Recycled/Regenerated: Can fabrics made from recycled materials be used? (Although, it's important to note that recycling things like plastic bottles into clothing has its own issues and is more of an interrupted cycle or down-cycling system than a restorative, circular one)
End-of-life: What happens when the material is no longer usable in its state?
Can it be reused or repurposed in some way?
Will it biodegrade? (Clothing that can actually be safely composted is very rare!)
Can it be recycled into a similar or better quality product and not just down-cycled?
Dyed fabrics drying at Tonlé's studio in Phnom Penh
Brands can take different paths regarding their fabric choices and circularity. For Tonlé it means reclaiming and utilizing offcuts, "scraps", and deadstock fabrics, and turning them into beautiful and useful garments. This not only saves the resources of creating new fabrics but also allows textile waste to circle back into the system.
A lot of textile waste is generated during production — from leftover fibres and yarns in the spinning and weaving process, to cutting scraps and snipped threads.
While this is typically trash, brands like Tonlé have an innovative zero waste production process; cutting scraps are collected and handwoven into unique garment, accessories, and home decor, and even the too-tiny scraps and threads are saved and turned into paper!
It's also important for brands to be mindful about how much they're producing. Small batch production, made-to-order garments, or pre-sales are ways that brands can help ensure they aren't producing too much.
Tonlé artist completing a wall hanging made from fabric scraps
Unwanted, Worn & Damaged Garments
It's not enough just to put a garment out into the world. Sustainable brands should be conscious of its lifecycle and try to prevent textile waste from ending up in the landfill. Some ways brands can take responsibility for apparel waste are:
Offering repair services
Making garments that can safely biodegrade
Taking back garments for resale
Offering upcycling or recycling services
To help address this, Tonlé runs their Open Closet: a store for pre-loved Tonlé pieces. People can trade in their used clothes which are resold, repaired, or turned into new pieces. It's not only a wonderful way to reduce waste and keep clothing in the cycle but also a way to get a beautiful Tonlé garment at a lower price point, win-win!
Tonlé uses plastic-free packaging for shipping their products
True Circularity Means an Overhaul of the Industry
Waste is essentially part of all stages of clothing manufacturing and use (even while wearing and washing our garments we're shedding tiny bits of waste ). Unfortunately, the faster and cheaper garments are to produce, the less ability and incentive there is to reduce or recover that waste and bring it back into the cycle.
One example of how the industry has changed for the worse: traditionally fabric cutting would be optimized to use the least material possible (patterns were carefully jigsawed together to reduce waste and fabric costs), however this takes more time and with the speed of fashion now, it's more important for factories to get the pieces cut as quickly as possible instead of efficiently using the fabric. Tonlé founder Rachel Faller said they often find huge offcut pieces leftover from brands — enough to cut long dresses or multiple garments from!
Rachel also told me about how a lot of the deadstock materials come from factories over-ordering, (but not at the fault of the factory). Due to the quick production pace, factories don't have time to order the appropriate amount of fabric after getting all the finalized numbers and info from the brand, like they would have pre-fast fashion. Instead they need to have enough fabric on hand to immediately meet the demands of the brand, because saying, "we can't do that" or "it will take longer" could mean a lost contract, not being able to pay wages, and the brand going to another factory.
Like guest writer Hannah Neumann shared in a post about producing garments in a pandemic: "Not only do the producers behind our clothes make the least amount of profit within the fashion supply chain, they also have the highest risk and least protection."
The insane demands brands put on factories mean so much unnecessary waste is created simply to save a little time or money.
And then there's also the misguided emphasis on textile recycling. Textile recycling is still very flawed, but fast fashion brands are using it to encourage guilt-free shopping. Harmful "Wear, Recycle, Repeat" type messaging promotes the idea that you can buy endless amounts of clothing and it's sustainable because you're recycling it.
We unfortunately have a long way to go regarding a true circular economy in the fashion industry. New approaches and systems desperately need to be incorporated to foremost reduce — and then also recover and effectively recycle — waste.
However, it's inspiring to see small brands like Tonlé forging their own path, collaboratively developing and designing innovative systems, taking on challenges, and continuing to push themselves.
Things can be different and a circularity in fashion can be so much more than a greenwashing buzzword!
Learn more about Circularity in Fashion: Ellen MacArthur Foundation Towards the Circular Economy Report
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It isn't every day that a watch brand says, "Join us skiing or hiking in Colorado." So when that happens, you pay attention — especially if the band is Oris. This Swiss watch brand has been building pilot watches, dive watches and other sports-oriented timepieces for decades, so a mountain adventure seemed all too appropriate. In addition to skiing or hiking the snow-covered trails of Vail, Colorado, with Oris, those of us "chosen few" journalists on the trip, also indulged in some pretty impressive new timepieces. Among them: the Oris GMT Rega Limited Edition, dedicated to a vital 24-hour rescue service; and the Oris Clipperton, with proceeds helping to fund the Clipperton Expedition to the highly polluted French atoll.
Oris has a reputation for championing conservations causes, and last year brought us the Staghorn Restoration watch, and a few others, and worked closely with the Coral Restoration Foundation to support the growth and out planting of coral. Now, the brand is onboard as a major sponsor for The Clipperton Expedition, a journey to the world's most isolated landmass as part of its ongoing support of ocean conservation. The expedition is a "citizen-scientist" event to this island in the eastern Pacific that is considered not only the most isolated land mass, but also one of the most endangered makes. The atoll is located in a critical migration corridor used by a number of threatened species of sharks. The purpose of the expedition is to raise awareness of the Clipperton's situation and to try to preserve its fragile ecosystem. One of the plans is to create a 12-nautical-mile marine protected area around the island, so the teams can collect data and protect the area. The long-term hope is that UNESCO will recognize the atoll and elevate it to a World Heritage Marine Site.
The Oris Clipperton watch is in support of the Clipperton expedition, and the tagging and tracking of shark migration patterns around the atoll.
Oris is sponsoring the expedition's shark GPS tagging and tracking program. The brand also created limited-edition Aquis Clipperton watches to help support this cause. Recalling the deep blue ocean, the new 43.5mm Clipperton Limited Edition watch features a blue dial that is gradient from the center out to the edges. Powered by the Oris Caliber 733, based on the Sellita SW 200-1, the watch is water resistant to 300 meters and offers 38 hours of power reserve. It is sold in a presentation box made of regenerative algae. The watch retails for $2,000 on a rubber strap and $2,200 on a stainless steel bracelet. Just 2,000 pieces will be made, each available for sale beginning in February 2018.
In addition to conservation, Oris also focuses on rescue projects, and has been a partner with an independent air-rescue service for several years now. The new Oris GMT Rega Limited Edition watch is the second one the brand has made in support of its partnership with non-profit Rega, the Swiss air-rescue service. Equipped with a second time zone, indicated by a 24-hour central hand, the Oris GMT Rega Limited Edition was created with input from Rega jet pilots and the GMT function is designed to represent the worldwide amulence-jet service offered by Rega across all time zones. The jets carry all the equipment necessary to transport intensive care patients.
The new 45mm Oris GMT Rega Limited Edition watch is based on Oris's Big Crown ProPilot GMT watch and is crafted in stainless steel with a matt gunmetal-gray PVD coating. It is powered by the automatic Calibre 748 with second time zone, or GMT function, indicated by a red-tipped central hand. The black dial sports luminescent Super-LumiNova® Arabic numerals, hands and hour markers. The watch — created in a limited edition of just 2,000 pieces –is finished with a grey textile strap lined with red leather (Rega's corporate color). It retails for about $2,250.
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Q: using fstab to mount network drive with cifs I'm trying to set up samba on an ubuntu server, and create automatic backups on my ubuntu desktop, both 18.04, but I can't seem to configure fstab properly.
I have ownership of both the server's samba directory and my local mounting point.
Here is the output of ls -ld /srv/samba/tim on the server:
drwxr-xr-x 4 tim tim 4096 Sep 28 02:06 /srv/samba/tim/

and the output of ls -ld /media/ubuntu_server on the desktop:
drwxr-xr-- 2 tim tim 4096 Sep 27 20:20 /media/ubuntu_server/

and my attempt at configuring the mount in fstab:
//10.0.0.3/tim  /media/ubuntu_server  cifs  vers=1.0,user=tim,noauto,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

For whatever reason, when I boot, or run sudo mount -a the directory appears in nautilus, but clicking on it gives me the error mount: /media/ubuntu_server: operation permitted for root only.
Yet, if I run sudo mount /media/ubuntu_server it prompts for the password for the correct user (tim) and mounts so that I can use it the way I intended.
Could this be an issue with the users permissions?
I really have no idea, so please throw your recomendations at me

A: You're currently mounting a directory for a user that needs root permissions to access that could be causing the permission error. I'd recommend to change the mount directory to somewhere inside your home directory /home/tim/ubuntu_server
You can also tweak the fstab file similar to mine.
//192.168.1.1/tim /home/tim/ubuntu_server cifs guest,uid=1000,noauto,user,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 0

A: I was able to get it to work by removing the noauto option and specifying uid=1000
I'm not certain why this combination worked, but trying one or the other was unsuccessful. Hopefully this can help someone else in the future

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Day 11 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Posted on August 24, 2011 by Colin Galbraith
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A full day at the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday, but thanks to the late-night writing session the evening before, I slept in slightly and never arrived until shortly before 11am.
On arriving, I collected my tickets from the Press office and headed over to my first event of the day with Orange Prize winner, Linda Grant.
Linda Grant
Rush Wishart was in sparkling form again today as she interviewed Orange Prize for Fiction winner, Linda Grant about her new novel, We Had It So Good. While taking their seats on the RBS Main tent stage, Wishart quipped: "That's the kind of handbag that doubles as a filing cabinet," much to the amusement of the audience.
"We baby boomers were the generation that wasn't supposed to grow up," said Grant launching into the background to her new book. "We were supposed to stay young forever. In the period between adolescence and adulthood, we think we know who we are—know who the real us is."
Grant's reading consisted of a hilarious section about Ivan, an anarchist who is recommending that "LSD is an old-school drug because it takes so much time; 8 hours to do it then another two days to recover! How are you meant to fit anything else in round about that?"
But the larger issues surrounding Grant's book were never far from being analysed. "Perhaps our parents' lives were more interesting than we thought they were when we were growing up," she said. "And at some level we certainly refer to their lives to see how far we've come in our own."
Looking back fondly at the 60s and all it stood for, Grant commented that "the only revolution in the 60s worth its salt was feminism and we were responsible for that—the baby boomers." When asked how she thought this political view sits with modern girls of the same age, Grant said: "Young girls often say to me that they can't be bothered with feminism any more, and its not because we've done the job. So I say to them, do they really want to go back to the day when they had to get their husband's signature so they can apply for their own credit card?"
In We Had It So Good, Grant is trying to capture what it is to be married today, to be in a marriage that is not one wanting to develop, but rather fighting to just keep it together. "What's it like to be in a marriage that you need to hang onto for the love of the children?" she asks. "Besides, I wanted to explore other ideas—you can't do sexual politics in every book."
Grant tied up her fascinating hour with confirmation that there will be a sequel to this latest novel and that she is due to start work on it imminently. "The characters are going to be forced to face up to their difficulties," she said with determination, "and want to follow that through."
Surreal Moment
Following Linda, I was in the Press tent writing up and posting the previous day's blog, when the sound of unbridle hilarity drifted in from the photography pitch outside the author's Yurt. I looked out and there was ex-political opponents Roy Hattersley standing arm in arm with Menzies Campbell being photographed. That is NOT something you see every day!
Nothing But the Poem – Czeslaw Milosz
Then it was off to the Writers' Retreat for something very different. In this regular weekly event under the Legends of Modern Literature series at the book festival, participants are invited to analyse two poems by specified poets in a discussion that is aimed at dissecting the poets work in front of them, as well the broader issue invoked within the prose.
Hosted by Scottish Poetry Library director Robyn Marsack, we heard two poems, first in Polish and then in English, before a group discussion about the meanings of the poems and the issues the poet was attempting to throw open.
The best poems, it is often said, are those that are left open to interpretation and that is exactly what one gets with Milosz and the two poems we looked at: The Song on the End of the World and Dedication.
Not one for the casual poetry fan, these sessions are strictly for the dedicated poetry buff, and while one did not need to know about the poet being discussed, it definitely helped if you did.
Photo Ops
On the way out from the Writers' Retreat, I passed the RBS Main tent to a thunderous applause and realised Roy Hattersley event was closing. I decided to hang around to grab a picture of him, and was lucky enough to snap him sharing a joke with festival director, Nick Barley on the way to his signing.
Another quick round of writing and hanging around, posting a few pictures on Flickr and Twitter and such, then it was off out again to see Esther Freud. I still had not had any lunch by this stage but with a couple of hours after Freud and before Ian Rankin, I elected to fit food into my schedule for later on.
On my way to see Freud, another photo opportunity presented itself, this time in the form of Kirsty Wark filming a special for the BBC's The Review Show. More snapping then I was on my way.
Esther Freud
Daughter of Lucian and granddaughter of Sigmund, Esther Freud's name is synonymous the world over with brains and intelligence; it's not something she feels is as much of an issue in the UK as it is on mainland Europe for example, nevertheless, she admitted to feeling great to be experiencing the freedom that the people in the UK offer her.
At the book festival she came to promote hew new novel, her seventh since she made the switch from acting to novelist, Lucky Break. It was a move she made after a career in acting that saw her rejected from acting school, "but then acting is all about rejection—it comes with the industry just as it does in writing." Later she added: "Failed actors often re-train and can be very successful in some cases, but a lot also tend to go into the healing industry."
The move to writing finally came for Freud after her acting and writing partner qualified with an Equity Card and was soon off to America to make a film. Their acting company, Norfolk Broads, broke up and left Freud unsure how to progress, forcing her to face up to the fact that she would have to write alone for the first time in her life.
This was a real moment of epiphany for her, however, because it was during the writing of this first novel that Freud had her eyes opened. "I realised that I still wanted to tell stories, but to tell them in a different way."
And just as with writers or artists that are obsessed with their work, be it a novel or a painter, Freud also came to the realisation that actors too are obsessed, "but because their art, their vehicle is their own bodies—hair, weight, shape, etc.—this obsession is often confused with narcissism," a mistake that she regrets happening quite so often as it does.
Freud read a passage from her latest novel (it was such a good reading I would recommend her for any audio recordings of books), a book she says was very difficult to write after it was "rejected by my own husband," she joked. "He said it wasn't true to what acting was about, and sure enough when I re-read it, I could see that I had lost sight of what acting is about. So I re-wrote large chunks of it."
Freud closed up with a statement that would appeal to actors and writers the world over, when she remarked: "Whatever way you approach it, writing a novel is hard work!"
By this point I was beginning to lag and had grown quite hungry so I took myself off-site for an hour to get some food and write-up the rest of the day's events. I nipped round to Costa coffee on Castle Street and found a quite spot to work while I supped my cappuccino and munched on my ham & cheese panini.
That took the best part of an hour then I headed back to the Square and took refuge in the Press tent. I snapped a picture of the in-joke given the amount of rain we had last week; a rubber duck with the Press Pod (its official name) reworked to indicate the wet theme.
The scene was set for Rankin's first of two main appearances at this year's book festival, as first the Rolling Stones followed by John Martyn's Solid Air, accompanied his arrival in a packed RBS Main Tent.
He explained that as well as the song being key to his Desert Island Discs choice some years ago, the song actually meant much more to him in that it was always the first song he played—on vinyl—when he moved into a new house.
As far as his most famous literary creation goes, his music tastes used to differ to that of Inspector Rebus. "Rebus used to be a jazz fan," said Rankin, "until John Harvey came along. I soon realised that by making Rebus a fan of what I liked, I could research it further and build a music collection that was tax deductible," he joked.
Rankin wrote his new novel, The Impossible Dead in the first two months of this year but it won't see publication until October 13th. "All I have is this dust jacket," he said, holding one up. "The title wasn't my first choice but the publisher's liked it."
Talking a bit more about his writing process, he explained that he is a firm news junkie: "I read several newspapers a day and always have the news on, and it's from this that stories just keep leaping out at me." With that, he briefly held up a newspaper cutting that he said had provided the inspiration for the new book, but later refused to divulge any more about what the book was about. "It's about jugglers going mad in Belarus," he joked.
Rankin's latest novel was written in the public spotlight through Twitter in January and February. His followers were able to accompany him on the highs and lows as the novel developed, and he is believed to be the first top author to open the door in such a way. "As well as it being a kind of diary," he explained, "it also highlighted to me that my life is actually quite mundane—it's not all glamour like people are inclined to think—but in my head it's a fairground ride."
He continued: "I don't see the point in being a full time writer if you have to spend your whole time writing," referring to the amount of procrastinating that became visible through the Twittersphere.
Turning his attention to the greater body of his work, Rankin admitted to still getting a buzz from opening the jiffy bag to be able to hold the first physical copy of any novel he has written. When asked by Richard Havers what he does then he replied: "I usually go to the pub."
And of his success as a crime writer, Rankin also admitted that he wishes his parents had lived to see past the first few published books, and to have enjoyed his success. "It would have been good to show them that it is possible to make a career from making stuff up."
Don Paterson
My final event for the evening saw me scooting off to the smaller and more intimate surroundings of the Scottish Power Studio Theatre to see Don Paterson.
Paterson's latest work, Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets, is a mammoth collection and tonight he read several, not in any organised pattern or flow (it seemed), but which I thought lended the evening to a more informal guide through Shakespeare's work. It was rather like an audience with The Don as he talked about the poems he fancied reading to us at the time.
Paterson began by explaining what he thought a sonnet could be described as: "Sonnets are like Spock playing 3D chess with himself while on-board the Starship Enterprise." No, that didn't make it any clearer for me either.
His view of what literary criticism is though, was much more palatable: "Literary criticism is not like doing algebra; it should be fun." And commenting on the scathing review he recently received, his only remark that hadn't already been said in the strong letter of response he wrote, was that "the biggest surprise about 'that' review was when I found out the poor chap was still alive."
"Poems are not perfect," explained Paterson, "and it's up often to the Gods. Take Shakespeare—the reason we're all here—even his stinkers are still better stinkers than everyone elses."
Rather bizarrely, Shakespeare sexuality also came into the discussion, with Paterson's assertion that although it was widely thought he was bisexual, "personally I think he was predominantly homosexual," which he then proceeded to prove through the reading of several male-oriented poems.
Wrapping up, Shakespeare's misogynistic tendencies came under the spotlight, which also provided me with a fascinating titbit of information, when Paterson, on dissecting one particularly misogynistic verse, explained that the use of the word "hell" is actually Elizabethan slang for "vagina".
Book Fest Podcasting
You may be wondering what on earth happened to the regular book festival podcasts I said I was going to do. To cut a long story short, I've simply not had to time to put together a show on a regular basis what with all the events, meetings and writing I've been doing. However, I have still been actively recording and all of these little snippets will be assembled into the form of a book festival review podcast, whish I'll produce and make available at the end of the book festival.
Book Fest Media
Catch up on all my reviews and articles on my sister site, the (Unofficial) Edinburgh Book Festival Blog
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Written by Scott Joseph on 01 June 2015 on 11 June 2015 .
I was driving down Semoran Boulevard the other day and passed a nice looking place called Cafe Caobana, so I made a u-ey and headed back to check it out.
It was nice looking on the inside, too, and in fact was bigger than I expected it to be with a spacious and tidy dining area in the back of the place. (Actually, it looked bigger because it's well mirrored, but there were still more seats than I thought there'd be.
I arrived at just a few minutes before closing time, so not wanting to be one of "those" people, I placed my order to go. I got a tamal for an appetizer and the shredded fried beef for my entree, with white rice, black beans and tostados.
While I waited for my order to be ready I resisted the siren call from the cakes and pastries in the display cabinet. They all looked great, though.
My tamale was very good. The pressed cornmeal with bits of pork inside had just the right essence of garlic in the flavor. The beef was a tad bit on the dry side, but once the beans and rice were all added together it was all good.
Cafe Caobana is at 73. S. Semoran Blvd., Orlando. It is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. There is no website. The phone number is 407-243-9140.


The property was in a picturesque village in the Alsace area. The modern interior was exceptional, and all the white goods were of top quality. With air conditoning in each room, it was lovely to come back too after very hot days visiting the many local attractions. Jacqie and Leon were excellent hosts and made us very welcome. We would definitely return again in the future.
Thank you very much ! You're welcome again !
Wir waren zum 3. Mal in Itterswiller. Es war eine schöne Zeit.
gemütliche, schöne und sehr saubere Ferienwohnung. Vermieter äußerst freundlich und hilfsbereit bei Organisation von Ausflügen. Wurden mit Gugelhupf und Flasche Wein aus eigener Erzeugung empfangen.
Vielen dank, und Gerne wieder !
Propriétaires d'une gentillesse exceptionnelle.Appartement superbe et conforme au descriptif.
L' accueil était on ne peut mieux.
C'est avec grand plaisir que nous vous accueillerons à nouveau.
We are ready to help you organize your stay in order to optimize it!


text:
Q: Like Box doubled persons I am experiencing a weird behavior of Like Box Social Plugin.
When I go to     https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
and enter my facebook page:     http://www.facebook.com/LetUgo.cz
it shows doubled persons in the list (i.e. their face photos).
In other words, almost every person who has liked my page is listed twice.
The number of persons (X people like...) is also incorrect.
When I log out of facebook and show the plugin again, it is correct.
So the wrong behaviour happens only when I am logged into facebook.
The same problem happens to the others who like the page.
When I go to this facebook page, everything is correct. So this problem relates to facebook like box social plugin only.
Does anybody have a clue?
Cheers


text:
Q: Python Type Hint Instances of class I'm unsure of the Python convention for type hinting for this situation
I have a class
class A(object):
     pass

And a not defined number of subclasses of A, i.e.:
class B(A):
     pass

class C(A):
     pass

class D(A):
     pass
.....

If I want that a function, accepts only instances of B,C,D, and not instances of A, what is the correct typing notation?
def fnc(x: # Only instances of B,C,D,...):
   pass

With the notation
def fnc(x: A):
   pass

the function will accept also instances of A itself, correct?

A: Python hinting is just that (a hint that is a suggestion and therefore not enforceable).
You can hint which types a variable or argument should be, but cannot preclude a type.
So in the given example in the question, you can hint for B, C, and D as the arguments and just elect to omit A as an argument.
So it looks like this:
class A(object):
     pass

class B(A):
     pass

class C(A):
     pass

class D(A):
     pass

def fnc(x:B, y:C, z:D):
    pass

One option is to use notation like a preceding underscore like this _A or __A to indicate the difference between a conceptually "private" and "public" class.
Also, it might be something specifically mentioned in the function docstring if it is of importance.


text:
#include "stdneb.h"
#include "timing/calendartime.h"

namespace Base
{
using namespace Timing;
using namespace Util;
using namespace IO;

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTimeBase::CalendarTimeBase() :
    year(1972),
    month(July),
    weekday(Saturday),
    day(1),
    hour(0),
    minute(0),
    second(0),
    milliSecond(0)
{
    // empty
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
    Formats a calendar time into a string using the following substitution
    string:

    {YEAR}          - the year member
    {MONTH}         - the month member
    {WEEKDAY}       - the weekday member
    {DAY}           - the numerical day-in-month member
    {HOUR}          - the hour member
    {MINUTE}        - the minute member
    {SECOND}        - the second member
    {MILLISECOND}   - the millisecond member
*/
String
CalendarTimeBase::Format(const String& fmtString, const CalendarTime& calTime)
{
    String str = fmtString;
    String yearString, monthString, weekdayString, dayString;
    String hourString, minuteString, secondString, milliSecondString;

    yearString = String::FromInt(calTime.year);
    weekdayString = WeekdayToString(calTime.weekday);
    if (calTime.month < 10)
    {
        monthString = "0";
    }
    monthString.AppendInt(calTime.month);
    if (calTime.day < 10)
    {
        dayString = "0";
    }
    dayString.AppendInt(calTime.day);
    if (calTime.hour < 10)
    {
        hourString = "0";
    }
    hourString.AppendInt(calTime.hour);
    if (calTime.minute < 10)
    {
        minuteString = "0";
    }
    minuteString.AppendInt(calTime.minute);
    if (calTime.second < 10)
    {
        secondString = "0";
    }
    secondString.AppendInt(calTime.second);
    if (calTime.milliSecond < 10)
    {
        milliSecondString = "00";
    }
    else if (calTime.milliSecond < 100)
    {
        milliSecondString.Append("0");
    }
    milliSecondString.AppendInt(calTime.milliSecond);

    str.SubstituteString("{YEAR}", yearString.AsCharPtr());
    str.SubstituteString("{MONTH}", monthString.AsCharPtr());
    str.SubstituteString("{WEEKDAY}", weekdayString.AsCharPtr());
    str.SubstituteString("{DAY}", dayString.AsCharPtr());
    str.SubstituteString("{HOUR}", hourString.AsCharPtr());
    str.SubstituteString("{MINUTE}", minuteString.AsCharPtr());
    str.SubstituteString("{SECOND}", secondString.AsCharPtr());
    str.SubstituteString("{MILLISECOND}", milliSecondString.AsCharPtr());

    return str;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
String
CalendarTimeBase::MonthToString(Month m)
{
    switch (m)
    {
        case January:   return "January";
        case February:  return "February";
        case March:     return "March";
        case April:     return "April";
        case May:       return "May";
        case June:      return "June";
        case July:      return "July";
        case August:    return "August";
        case September: return "September";
        case October:   return "October";
        case November:  return "November";
        case December:  return "December";
        default:        return "";
    }
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Month
CalendarTimeBase::StringToMonth(const String& str)
{
    if (str == "January") return January;
    else if (str == "February") return February;
    else if (str == "March") return March;
    else if (str == "April") return April;
    else if (str == "May") return May;
    else if (str == "June") return June;
    else if (str == "July") return July;
    else if (str == "August") return August;
    else if (str == "September") return September;
    else if (str == "October") return October;
    else if (str == "November") return November;
    else if (str == "December") return December;
    else
    {
        n_error("CalendarTime::StringToMonth(): invalid month string '%s'!", str.AsCharPtr());
        return January;
    }
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
String
CalendarTimeBase::WeekdayToString(Weekday d)
{
    switch (d)
    {
        case Sunday:    return "Sunday";
        case Monday:    return "Monday";
        case Tuesday:   return "Tuesday";
        case Wednesday: return "Wednesday";
        case Thursday:  return "Thursday";
        case Friday:    return "Friday";
        case Saturday:  return "Saturday";
        default:        return "";
    }
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Weekday
CalendarTimeBase::StringToWeekday(const String& str)
{
    if (str == "Sunday") return Sunday;
    else if (str == "Monday") return Monday;
    else if (str == "Tuesday") return Tuesday;
    else if (str == "Wednesday") return Wednesday;
    else if (str == "Thursday") return Thursday;
    else if (str == "Friday") return Friday;
    else if (str == "Saturday") return Saturday;
    else
    {
        n_error("CalendarTime::StringToWeekday(): invalid weekday string '%s'!", str.AsCharPtr());
        return Sunday;
    }
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetYear(Year y)
{
    this->year = y;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Year
CalendarTimeBase::GetYear() const
{
    return this->year;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetMonth(Month m)
{
    this->month = m;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Month
CalendarTimeBase::GetMonth() const
{
    return this->month;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetWeekday(Weekday d)
{
    this->weekday = d;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Weekday
CalendarTimeBase::GetWeekday() const
{
    return this->weekday;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetDay(Day d)
{
    this->day = d;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Day
CalendarTimeBase::GetDay() const
{
    return this->day;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetHour(Hour h)
{
    this->hour = h;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Hour
CalendarTimeBase::GetHour() const
{
    return this->hour;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetMinute(Minute m)
{
    this->minute = m;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Minute
CalendarTimeBase::GetMinute() const
{
    return this->minute;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetSecond(Second s)
{
    this->second = s;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::Second
CalendarTimeBase::GetSecond() const
{
    return this->second;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
void
CalendarTimeBase::SetMilliSecond(MilliSecond m)
{
    this->milliSecond = m;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
*/
CalendarTime::MilliSecond
CalendarTimeBase::GetMilliSecond() const
{
    return this->milliSecond;
}

} // namespace Base

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This is my go to smoothie when the morning is rushed or I'm just wanting to get some greens in for the day. My toddler loves it too, so I'll often fill a little 8 ounce Mason jar with some for him and drink the rest myself in a large 32 ouHunce Mason jar for me.
It's easily customizable and very refreshing!
Place all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend, blend, blend!