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We like each Roadshow to be a voyage of discovery
and this week we've come to a place which has close ties
to some epic journeys of exploration.
Welcome to Dundee.
Here's an interesting little fact. Did you know, at one time,
there were more millionaires in Dundee
than any other part of Britain?
It's all down to this - jute, harvested from a plant in India.
Now, it may not look like much
but it was one of the most familiar products of the 19th century.
This is how it came out of the plant in its natural form,
and it then went through a variety of processes
to be used in all sorts of things like string, rope, cloth, sailcloth,
flooring, clothes and it was all made here in Dundee.
Some 50,000 people worked in the industry.
Not surprisingly, it made some individuals very wealthy,
including jute baron Sir James Caird.
Caird, like everyone in Dundee,
watched the exciting launch of this ship, the Discovery,
on its maiden voyage in 1901 to Antarctica.
Below deck, it's easy to imagine life on board.
Basic with few home comforts.
This is the captain's cabin.
Robert Falcon Scott was appointed expedition leader.
Scott of the Antarctic, of course, and he was immensely courageous.
It's incredible to think that on its maiden journey,
this ship was stuck in the ice for three years before it was rescued.
Sir James Caird was so impressed
by the bravery of the men on the Discovery
that he later helped fund Shackleton's epic journey
on the Endurance to the Antarctic via the South Pole.
As we know, it became one of the most incredible adventure stories
of all time, when the expedition became stranded on the ice.
Just when things looked hopeless,
Shackleton launched a heroic mission to get help on a lifeboat.
That lifeboat was named after Sir James Caird
and it saved their lives.
Sir James Caird left many legacies here in Dundee.
He funded the construction of this magnificent hall, Caird Hall,
which is the venue for our journey
into the uncharted waters of today's Roadshow.
Here we are, Edinburgh Castle Peep Show. Absolutely splendid.
In three languages - the chateau of Edinburgh, in French,
Das Schloss, in German,
and the castle of Edinburgh.
So, it was designed for tourists, really.
Now, I'm going to ask you to help me open this
because it's a lovely peep show.
Let me... I've got it open.
You hang on to the bottom.
And, if we go through it,
we can see the whole streets of Edinburgh,
and it's vibrant in its colour.
And I can see somebody in what looks like a kilt at the end, there.
Yes. Yes, that'll be in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh.
I was there the other day, and I have to say,
I don't recognise this building here on the left.
I don't recognise that
-but the others are completely clear. That's the back of the castle.
That's Castle Terrace here and the old High Street goes down from here.
-Towards Holyrood.
-The Royal Mile.
So, tell me, where did you buy this wonderful thing 40 years ago?
I got it in...more of a junk shop than an antique shop, in Perth.
-And when I came across this, I just couldn't resist it.
Well, I couldn't resist it either.
I mean, apart from the box being rather tatty,
the inside is as bright and as vibrant as ever -
that's because it's been kept out of the dust
and it's been handled with care.
Nowadays, something like that,
you'd be paying somewhere in the region of £600 or £700.
-Yes, absolutely.
I didn't expect that!
-So, there you are, you've done rather well.
-Thank you very much.
Thank you for bringing it in.
So, what is a nice lady like you
doing with an extraordinary carriage clock like this?
Well, it was part of a collection my father had.
All his pieces were not naughty pieces like this,
but it just happened to be the nicest one
I liked to look at and play with when I was young.
Later on, I was able to take only one piece
from our house with me
because things were getting very dangerous in Germany where I grew up,
close to the end of the war,
and my parents by this time were no longer with me
and I just grabbed this and fled.
How extraordinary! And were the Russians advancing at this time?
-Yes, yes.
-Were they really?
-Very close, yes.
How did you manage to get out?
Well, we just stood by the end of the road and hoped for a lift,
which I got eventually from a German military bus.
And this being a small little carriage clock...
-Yes, I had it in my coat pocket.
-Yes, fantastic.
-And do you remember it in your childhood?
As far as I remember it never went,
I mean it was never looked upon to get your time,
it was just a piece, an ornament, you know.
-It has the most extraordinary enamel panels.
Yes, my father must have fancied the panels.
Yes, it's got a little bit of a male...
My daughters, they tell me now that when they were little,
they used to look at it and giggled and thought,
"We'd better not let Mum know
"we're looking at these naked ladies," you see.
I think that's terrific.
-Well, it's a very pretty little Swiss carriage clock.
With silver gilt construction of case,
-made around 1915, 1920, that sort of period.
And of course the great feature about it
are these lovely enamel panels with the semi-naked women.
-They're not erotic, they're very lovely.
So, as I said, Swiss made.
-With a nice white enamel dial and a silver gilt case,
-but most of the gilding has come off the silver.
-Obviously too much polishing.
Well, it's still a highly desirable clock, in this sort of condition,
-a little bit less than normal.
But still every collector in the market
-should pay between £1,500 and £2,000.
-Really, really?
-Oh, I am surprised.
-That was worth pinching off the shelf
-before you ran for it!
-Yes!
-Thank you for bringing it in.
-It's fantastic.
-It's been a pleasure, thank you.
When I initially looked at this, I thought,
"Another writing desk," and they come in quite regularly,
but this is something really special,
because not only is it a writing desk,
it's the world's first copying machine.
-Is it yours? Is it something you bought?
-It's a colleague of mine,
he has a special interest in writing slopes - we're both journalists.
So let's have a look at it, let's have a look, so we open this,
and a standard writing slope.
What's in here?
-Oh, couple of candlesticks.
-These... That's right, go on there.
Like so...
And then, like every writing slope, it has some secret drawers...
..and in here we have...
a brush...
-..and a handle.
-We need that.
You need that.
Thank you. This goes in here, like so.
Just wind there...
So what we have here is something that was invented by a Scotsman.
That's right, Sir James Watt.
James Watt, you know all about him.
Um, and then when he was working
between his Birmingham factory and the mines down in Cornwall,
he was travelling backwards and forwards a lot,
and he obviously needed his documents copied,
so the only way to do that would be to sit here writing the letter
and then write a copy,
send the letter off and keep the copy for his files.
-Very time consuming.
Being a great engineer, he thought,
"I want to find something simple that works,
"then I can actually copy my letters
"without having to hand-write them again",
so he developed this, and it was patented back in 1780,
and this came into production about 1790.
So it's well over 200 years old, and how it works is,
although I haven't got a letter,
I have got a great Antiques Roadshow brochure here.
You would have written your letter in a special ink,
and then you would have wetted... wetted the tissue,
and I think we've got some tissue somewhere, probably at this side.
There we are, there's some... Ooh, there's some letters here as well.
The drying book.
You would have wetted the tissue
and then you would have put the letter and the tissue together,
put it on here, and then you would have wound the handle.
Hopefully it would go in, and inside here
there are two rolling plates, and you pressed the two together
and you would get an offset of the actual letter
you had written in the first place.
-Mm-hm.
-You turn that around, and then you get a fair copy,
-so you could actually read it. A fabulous invention.
-Ingenious.
Absolutely ingenious, simple, but it worked and, you know,
this was invented way before, obviously,
photocopying or even the typewriter,
so it's an extremely ingenious
and beautifully constructed bit of engineering,
-and it's also a piece of furniture.
-Absolutely, yeah.
It's extraordinary that in my whole career, which is, I hate to say it,
but it's coming up to 30 years, I've only seen three examples,
one of which I actually handled, and we saw one at Ascot,
slightly different design, earlier in the series, so like all things,
you never see one and then two come along together.
-Yeah.
-But, extraordinarily rare.
I think in the first year, they only made 150.
The last one to sell at auction sold for £26,000.
-British sterling?
-British sterling, yeah, not guineas, £26,000.
-Oh, right.
-The one that came up at auction, I have to say,
had a great provenance, that it came from the Watt family,
so that added quite considerably to it
but, without a doubt, I would see this at auction
at £12,000 to £15,000 and it could easily make more
because it's in fabulous condition.
-Wow, there you go.
-Great fun to use.
It's a fabulous piece, thank you so much for bringing it in.
Wonderful. Thank you very much.
This is a little rectangular blue leather box
about three inches wide,
and on the lid we have the letters "MV Clytoneus"
that's "merchant vessel".
-Clytoneus.
Launched 9th of the 4th, 1948.
-Clearly not by you, ma'am.
-No, certainly not.
So who did launch this vessel?
Um, it was my great aunt who launched it, um...
Did she talk about it at all? I mean do you know much about it?
Well, um, she did mention it once or twice,
but, I mean, I was only about 11 when she died, so...
-Oh, I see.
-Yes, but she left this to me.
Well, it's quite a small box, quite clearly,
and therefore it's not going to have a grand, opulent content,
-but the contents are incredibly pretty, aren't they?
-What we have in the box is a sweet little bow-shaped brooch.
-In platinum and diamonds.
-Right.
Now the style of the brooch is interesting,
because, now - can we just come back,
-reel this back to the year that this launch took place, 1948?
Well, may I tell you that there is no way
that that brooch was made in 1948.
-No. I don't think so,
I think that the retailer who have put this brooch in the box
have bought maybe a second-hand brooch
and they've put it in their own case
and they've put the, you know, little motif...
-Embossed the...
-On the front.
The brooch itself is very strongly of a period
of around about the First World War.
Now, the diamonds in the frame are what we call pave set,
they're in touching formation,
but the key to this brooch, which I know it's only very, very little,
but the key to this brooch is that when you look at it
with the lens through the side, you notice that engraved
on the centre, at the side,
are the magic words "Cartier Ltd."
Now that's a whole new ball game.
-So the value changes dramatically.
Now, all right, we're not suggesting
we've got a large important-size Cartier diamond brooch.
-No, no.
-But I don't know about you -
-I think it's incredibly pretty.
-It is, yes.
and wearable... I don't know whether it's something you wear.
Not usually. I wore it at my wedding but I don't think I've worn it since.
Well, I think that such a brooch,
if it was sold on the open market,
-not that it will be, I appreciate that.
-It would be...
-Sentimental value.
a lot of interest in it, actually because it's so small and so sweet.
-So what are we talking about with prices?
The fact it's by Cartier means that if you were selling it,
it would fetch in the region of a couple of thousand pounds.
-Nice piece that she gave you.
-Yes, yes, beautiful, yes. I love it, thank you.
-Thank you.
It's amazing being up here in Scotland
and looking at a watercolour like this,
because it's like one of the Scottish artists.
-Yes, the Glasgow School.
-The Glasgow School.
At the bottom here we have a signature
and it's by Johann -
and an almost unpronounceable middle name,
which is Zoetelief Tromp.
He's an artist that was born in Indonesia, so Dutch East Indies,
and came over and studied in Holland, in the Hague.
Because he was born in the 1870s, this would have been painted
probably about 1910, 1920,
but it's extraordinary to find this picture,
which is so like the Scottish watercolourists,
really, of the Glasgow School over here,
so how did a Dutch painting like this land up here?
Well, according to my uncle it was bought by his father, my grandfather,
probably in the 1930s.
It was certainly bought in Dundee but we know no more about it than that.
I just love the composition. I mean when you look at it,
it's a little girl on the swing, there,
-and on the left here is the sister, dying to have a go.
-Indeed.
But she's got to wait her turn.
-And I think she's rather impatient, looking at it.
But you know, when you look at a picture like this,
-which is impressionistic...
Look at the way that's constructed. it's very broadly painted.
You stand back to look at it for it all to come together.
-But it's so cleverly done and I have to put a value on this,
because this is your heirloom,
and I think at auction that would make certainly £4,000 to £6,000.
Heavens, that's a surprise, I didn't think it would be as much as that.
Oh, my uncle will be delighted,
I can see him buying a high definition television now.
Well, that's rather sad. I think I'd rather have that.
Now, quite rightly in Dundee,
we've talked quite a bit about the Discovery,
you know, and the crucial role it played in Antarctic history,
but there is more to that story, isn't there?
-And you're from the Discovery Point Museum.
-That's right.
And I think you want to explore with me, a lesser known aspect of this.
That's correct, and what I have here, really, is an example
of the starting point for Captain Scott's Antarctic career.
-So what is that? That's a cigarette case.
-It's a small cigarette case
which was awarded to him in St Kitts
in the West Indies in 1887.
-He won a cutter race, in other words an oared rowing race.
And was awarded this small cigarette case.
The key point about this cigarette case is it happened at a time
when another interesting Antarctic character, Sir Clements Markham,
-arrived on the scene.
He was invited by the Commandant of the West Indies Squadron
-and was in St Kitts at the same time.
-So he saw Scott perform.
He saw Scott perform and recognised in him the qualities that he thought
might be useful for a leader of an expedition.
Right, so Markham was a sort of talent scout.
His job, unofficially, or officially, was to go round,
look at young cadets, trainee officers, and say "he's going far".
That's exactly what they did.
-So without that...
-It wouldn't have happened.
Nothing would have happened, no Discovery.
-No, no, we wouldn't have Captain Scott.
-No story. No, we can go home.
-Exactly.
-So what's the book?
The book is probably one of our star items in the collection.
It's Sir Clements Markham's personal photograph album,
and on the first page, here,
the ship that took them all to Antarctica, the RRS Discovery,
which was built at Dundee, is here being launched.
-This is the launch?
-That's the actual launch, 21st March.
There she is going down the... down the, down the slips.
So he assembled... what - it's like a scrap book?
It's a scrap book, exactly that, with all of the photographs
that he acquired over the period of the National Antarctic Expedition.
Right, so it covers the ship, what else does it cover?
It covers also... Just have to open this a little bit more.
And this is a particularly interesting photograph,
this is a Who's Who of Antarctic exploration.
-They're all in it.
-They're all in it, you've got Scott in the centre,
-you've got Edward Wilson, the famous zoologist...
You've got Lieutenant Royds, Armitage and then right behind there
in pride of place is Ernest Shackleton.
-Who everybody knows.
-Now what's happened here?
-Ah well, um, William Shackleton, same name, but...
-No connection.
..but no connection, was the physicist,
the original physicist on the expedition,
except he did upset quite a few people within the crew
and it was decided to take him off the ship.
-And Sir Clements Markham being who he was,
decided that he no longer fitted in with the expedition.
-So he just cut him out.
-Cut him out.
-It's like Stalin, isn't it?
-He doesn't exist.
Left the body and the legs.
Thought crime - along those lines, yes!
So, that in itself is a wonderful piece of history,
as you say, that is Antarctic history.
That is, it's the Who's Who.
-And what else?
-Turn it round again.
-So what's that?
-This is a particularly
-nice image of...
-A lovely shot.
-the Discovery leaving Lyttelton.
-So the beginning of the voyage?
Setting off from New Zealand.
Yeah, after having been in dry dock,
having been repaired, and off she goes,
-in a trip, really, which is a trip to the unknown.
-It's like going to the surface of the moon.
Well, all those trips were - the last great frontier.
-Yes, it was the last great frontier.
-I mean, I find these so exciting,
because I try to put myself in the mind
of people at that time, setting off on these voyages,
knowing they'd be away for years, possibly,
knowing...no idea about what was going to happen -
it's fantastic stuff.
I think this is a clear case where objects that superficially
have no particular significance, are very significant.
-A cigarette case like that, without that inscription,
in that condition is £20.
-Yeah, that's right.
-Add that component
-and you're dealing with a vastly superior sum - hundreds.
Because, as you say, without that, there would be no polar expeditions,
no Discovery, no Scott, no nothing.
The book is a different issue -
it's clearly a good provenance,
we're looking at thousands of pounds.
-Because this is such a rare association of images,
material, ephemera, which tells a very personal story
from the person who made it all happen.
Yeah, we were very, very excited to get it, obviously.
-I think so, I would be. Thank you.
-You're welcome.
I bet these have pride of place in your dining room.
Well, they're actually in my mother's dining room,
on either side of the sideboard.
Right. What do you know about them?
Not very much at all. My grandfather bought them
and he was told at the time they came from the Duke of Hamilton's palace.
Right, right, that's a grand start, isn't it?
The Duke of Hamilton's palace, well, it was called Hamilton Palace.
It was sold, the contents were sold in 1882.
-It's a very famous auction.
One of the most famous auctions in the 19th century.
Oh, I didn't know that.
These candelabra are clearly, to me, what's called Rococo Revival,
which started in popular taste in about the 1820s, 1830s,
but for a big, very wealthy noble family like the Hamiltons,
who were in London buying all the best French things,
they would be buying French early revival things
in the 1810s, 1820s, so, when he got married,
or almost certainly in 1819 when he became the Duke.
Just to explain very quickly
how I can date these - they look like French 1730s or '40s
but they're a little bit more clumsy
which takes me to England possibly, or France,
in the 1820-1830 revival period,
but the most charming thing - have you noticed the dragon?
No, I can't say I did.
You haven't had a good look at them, have you, ever really?
They've just always been there.
Gathering dust on mum's shelf,
there we go, but there's a lovely - you can see the tail
-here and it works all the way up into the dragon's mouth.
-Do you know what they're made of?
I don't. Honestly, I don't know anything about them.
Are they gold?
I don't think so, but I don't know.
Well, they're gold plated, if you like - they're what we call ormolu,
which is actually brass or bronze which has had a coat of gold paste
put on with mercury and then it's fired and it just burns
itself onto the brass underneath.
They're fantastic things, I mean they're just great.
I think you're going to have to pay at auction
-a minimum of £2,000 to £3,000.
And I think if you could ever prove the provenance,
ie the history of them,
I think you should double it.
I usually talk about military items,
war items, but you've brought along a few items today that are anti-war.
-I have indeed.
-Tell me something about them and who they belong to.
These refer to my grandmother's brother.
His name was Bernard Douglas Taylor.
-This is him?
-That's him, yes.
Was he a Friend, was he a Quaker?
He was a Quaker, the whole family
had been Methodists but turned Quaker before the First World War.
Prior to the war starting, he took part
-in many anti-war committees and so on.
-Oh, did he?
And once the war had started, he helped out with other
conscientious objectors and so on.
When the time came for his drafting, he appeared before a panel
and pleaded his case for not having to join the military.
And what's this hand-written letter about?
That's his declaration to the selection panel.
-Oh, this is dated January 26th, 1917.
Um, he's written here, "I am not" -
underlined - "a soldier
"and no amount of coercion can ever cause me to become an instrument
"for the slaughter of my fellow man."
So quite clearly he,
he was a very intense man and definitely not one to, er...
-He was.
-go against his morals.
And whatever else he said to the panel,
they came to the unanimous agreement that, due to his statement
and his eloquence and his intensity,
that he should be fully exempted from military service.
Interesting. Now this photograph here puzzles me somewhat,
because this is, I guess, him, is it?
-Well, why is he wearing military uniform?
What happened was, he decided that
the help he was giving out to dependants of "conchies" and so on,
he could perhaps do more, so he decided to go to France
to help out there.
Was this while the war was in progress?
It was still in progress, yes,
but what happened was, when he got off the ferry in Calais,
a gendarme came up, asked him his business and when he explained,
the gendarme said,
"What I suggest to you sir, is that you go to the nearest tailors,
"have yourself a uniform made and put it on immediately,
"because if the women of France
"see you in civilian clothes, a young, fit, hale man,
"they're going to tear you to pieces
"because their men have been dying at the front," and so on.
Yes, yes, that's extraordinary.
You've also brought along an armband. Tell me about this.
I know nothing about it.
I presume it's part of a Quaker voluntary organisation's motif.
Well, in fact, I do know what this is.
This is the Quaker star.
-And it's the badge of the Quaker relief organisation.
-That's good to know.
-And so he would have worn
the Quaker star on his arm.
As far as I know, he had no other form of insignia on the uniform,
-solely this.
-Yes, he would have worn
this armband to show who he was, to show that he was a Quaker.
-And also, of course, to support the other Quakers who were
-also over there.
-Yes, indeed.
Because he wouldn't have been alone.
But it must have been the most appalling thing,
actually, to be the subject of people's ridicule,
because he would have been ridiculed at home, in Britain.
I don't know that ridicule is the word.
I would say disliked to the point of being hated.
Hated? It's a strong word.
Yes, but the feeling in the country against conscientious objectors
was very, very strong indeed and in fact, if you open that,
-you'll perhaps see what I mean.
-This envelope?
What's this dated? 1916, it looks like from the postmark.
Oh, it's a letter to him.
You'll see.
Oh, my oh, goodness me,
it's a white feather.
It's a white feather - as in the Four Feathers film.
It says, "Noble sir, if you are too proud or frightened" -
underlined - "to fight, wear this".
-And the white feather.
-And this has been kept.
It's been kept, yes, it was kept by my grandmother
just to show the feelings that some human beings have
towards others, so...
-He obviously was a man of deep beliefs.
But how must he have felt when he received this?
How would you feel if you'd received this?
I don't know, I think from what I've read of his background
that he would have accepted it
as an example of how human beings can look upon
each other and feel sad and sorry for perhaps, for the person who wrote it.
Well, that's an interesting perspective, isn't it, I suppose.
And I have to say that I've never seen another
-white feather letter, ever.
Because I doubt whether anybody kept them. I would have thought that...
I think most people would have been very anxious to get rid of them
-completely, very quickly.
I actually feel quite privileged
to be able to see it, to... it's quite incredible.
And I wouldn't mind betting
-that if this was actually sold - I'm sure you don't want to do it.
But if this was sold, at auction today, you'd get a number of people
willing to pay probably £500, £600 for it, because it's most unusual.
-I think this is an indictment on war itself.
-Oh, quite.
And also an indictment
on the sort of person that would have sent that letter.
Yes. The whole country felt the same way at the time.
Of course they did, we were very patriotic,
but I find this in today's world, I find this very moving.
Thank you for showing it to me.
Thanks very much.
This beautiful stars and stripe dress, obviously fancy dress.
Tell me the story of it.
Well, it was designed and made by my grandmother for my mother, in 1926.
Mummy was aged 18 but Granny was very thrifty
and she was a superb needlewoman. They both designed and made clothes,
so you can see how she's used this red and white and blue cotton sateen
fabric, cut the red into stripes and put the whole thing together.
I think the headdress looks rather like something
out of a Lyon's Corner House waitress's outfit.
Well, it certainly looks a bit like Wonder Woman, doesn't it?
-Doesn't it?
-But I mean what's fantastic about
this is that when I think when I was sent off to fancy dress parties,
I always used to go as a pirate or a nurse, because it was easy.
This is something quite more delightful.
And I wore it to a fancy dress party in 1981, I wore it with silver lame
Mary Quant tights and I danced the Charleston in it.
-It was such fun.
The wonderful thing about this dress is that
at that period, mid-1920s, women, after the First World War,
women were partying, they were smoking, wearing much more make-up.
-Mummy wasn't allowed to smoke.
-Mummy wasn't smoking, well that's...
-And no nail varnish either.
-No nail varnish, either.
It's a wonderful example of something from the 1920s,
just before the Crash, people were still partying then,
it got very much more sombre after that,
but this is fabulous and just beautiful,
thank you so much for bringing it.
-Valuation of these things is, is so difficult because really
it's a very personal thing,
I mean, it would certainly be of great interest at auction,
I could see it making £150, £200.
Well, I mean I treasure the fact it's still in the family
and I love having it, thank you so much.
Our jewellery expert John Benjamin
was seen coming off the plane last night at Dundee airport
staggering under the weight
of something very, very heavy in his suitcase.
I found out today what it is, because we asked him
if, heaven forfend, his house should go up in flames,
what two objects would he rush out with, clutching one in each hand,
and John you brought along...
this, I know, is very heavy.
neither of the bits you brought are jewellery, which intrigues me.
-But let's start with this one. Why have you brought this along?
All right, well this is a bowl that was fashioned -
it's actually called "The Greedy Squirrel".
The story behind this bowl was this.
When I was 17 I left school.
No qualification to speak of. I was very lucky to get a job
working in a jewellery shop located in Bloomsbury called Cameo Corner.
Cameo Corner was started by this man. I'll show you a picture.
-There we are.
-What's his name?
Moshe Oved a mystic, a sculptor, a jeweller
started the shop up with nothing, and by the time he died,
some of the customers of the shop
were extraordinarily important people including Queen Mary,
who had her own armchair in the shop,
that no-one else was allowed to sit in.
For the four years I worked at Cameo Corner,
this squirrel sat on the counter
in the corner, right next to where I worked.
When I left Cameo Corner, that, of course, I left.
About, I don't know, three or four years ago,
the thing appeared at auction, and I was told about it and I thought,
"I have to have the squirrel".
That squirrel had been winking at me for four years, so I bought it
and it weighs a ton, doesn't it?
Ooh, yes, it does weigh a ton. I've got to say, John,
if you don't mind, it's not the most attractive thing
-I've ever seen.
-You don't like it?
-I'm not wild about it, but obviously
it means a lot to you.
It means a great deal to me because it represents my young life
in the jewellery industry, so there we are.
-And what about this object here?
-Well, that is a silver sugar sifter.
12 or 15 years ago, a telephone call from one of our branches.
Could I go down to visit a local client,
who it turned out had a large box of jewellery.
I went to visit this client,
sure enough the jewellery was astonishing,
and it turned out that the collection was owned by her father.
He had made it all.
He was called Henry George Murphy.
Henry Murphy was a goldsmith and silversmith who owned a shop
in Marylebone called The Falcon Studio
and in 1928 up to his death in 1939 he churned out the most amazing
jewellery and silverware.
Well, how did I come by this?
I researched the man's life, we photographed all his jewellery,
the client said that up in the loft
they had the entire archive of the Falcon Studio.
-It was a time bubble upstairs.
-What a find.
And what happened was that we recogn... I say "we",
because I collaborated with one of our own colleagues
on the Antiques Roadshow, Paul Atterbury.
We wrote a book about Murphy
and they gave me the silver sugar caster.
They gave it to you?
-Yes, they gave it to me.
-And what's it worth, this?
-Do you know?
-Do you know something?
I don't care what it's worth.
I have something that means a great deal to me,
because that is a thread in my life,
and for me, that is a very personal piece.
-John, thank you.
-Thank you, Fiona.
This is the kind of thing I could only have dreamed
would arrive at my table today. Here we have perhaps, how can I say,
one of the legends of golfing history.
And this is Old Tom Morris. Can you tell me where this came from?
It was, um, in my father's house after his death,
and when we cleared the house out, we found it.
-Right, so it wasn't hanging on the wall?
OK, well, let's talk about Old Tom Morris because essentially here
we have a superb photographic image of Old Tom Morris
on the course at St Andrews.
He's in a bunker,
which actually is probably not that usual for old Tom Morris,
because Old Tom Morris was an exceptional golfer,
he was regarded as absolutely invincible on the course.
He actually won the Open at Prestwick four times,
starting in 1861 I believe, and here he is at St Andrews.
There's a slightly more poignant history to Old Tom as well,
because he had a son, Young Tom Morris,
and Young Tom Morris won the Open four times as well,
but the sad thing is that he died at the age of 24.
So we have two generations of a family, both exceptional golfers,
both exceptional Scottish golfers, and Old Tom here lived to, I think,
around about 1904, 1905 - sadly his son died in around about 1875.
And it's a very poignant story,
but added to that we have a man here who,
to collectors, is literally the god of the golfing world
-and what is more, we have a signed photograph here.
And I wonder, had you ever considered a value
-on this photograph?
-No idea.
No, well this picture is worth £2,000 to £3,000.
I've been offered £1,000 for it.
-You haven't been offered enough.
Because it's an absolute classic of its time and, to be honest,
-to come to Scotland and find it in Scotland...
-..has kind of made my day.
-That's what I thought it would, yes.
Thank you, it's great.
-Thank you ever so much for bringing it along.
-This bowl, I love it, I really, really love it.
-Good.
It's fantastic, a visual feast of best pottery folk art you can get,
it's a gorgeous thing,
-everything's going on.
-Yes, it is, yeah.
It's lovely that it's dated, 1862. I mean, what's that?
I don't know, but I love the fact that the top hat was coming off.
-I mean it's extraordinary, man in a top hat on a bucking bronco.
It's an assortment of random images,
we've got this wonderful steam train here, we've got
two ships. It's a fantastic slipware bowl.
-Uh-huh.
-Technically about slipware, it's pottery which is then coated
-with a very, very thin layer of another coloured slip.
Which is basically liquid clay, which is then carved into
this sgraffito effect.
-The history of slipware...
Goes right back into medieval times.
This, being a 19th century piece, it became popular throughout,
really, the UK, North Devon is very, very famous for slipware.
-Barnstaple and so forth, but we're up in Dundee.
Where did you get this one?
This I found in my mother's attic when I moved my mother and father
to a smaller home this year,
and Margaret Morren was my great-great-aunt.
Fantastic, so this has gone down from person to person to person.
-Yeah, it has indeed.
-And lives in the attic.
-It was in the attic.
I think I shall be displaying it now.
Would Margaret Morren have made it?
-Have designed it?
-It's very unlikely.
It's more likely it was made perhaps as a present for her birth.
-Oh, for her birth?
-But I mean your family records may be able to
-tell you something about her.
-I need to look into it.
-You need a genealogist in the family.
-I do, I do.
-I think it's a gorgeous thing.
-Good, thank you.
I suppose got to think about what it might be worth.
I suppose in auction, £2,000.
Is it as much as that?
Oh, goodness, no, I'd no idea,
no idea at all, just thought it was a family piece, great.
It's lovely, it's really, really nice.
-I'm sure I shan't be selling it.
-I covet it.
Good. Oh, well, I'll take it to my home.
-You could come and look at it sometimes.
Thank you very much, thanks.
The first thing I'd love to ask you is what did you have for breakfast?
-Was it toast and marmalade?
-It was, yes.
-It was.
And did you turf the bread out of the bread bin first
-before you put the clock in? Did you really?
-I did.
That's fantastic, I love that.
But we're not here to look at a bread bin,
we're here to look at this extraordinary machine inside.
-Can I take it out?
Well, it's terrific fun, love it to bits.
I saw it poking out of the top of the bread bin
and I thought to myself, "Please let that be what I think it is,"
and it's exactly what I think it is, which is great.
So it's called a skeleton clock.
The reason it's called a skeleton clock
is because the movement plates have been pierced out so that you
can see straight through them and you can examine the wheel work
in between the two plates, whereas normally with a clock you'd have
-brass plates and you couldn't see any of the wheel work.
So we call this a skeleton clock. So how is it such an extraordinary
machine arrives here in Dundee?
Well, it came into our family in the Second World War. My grandfather
was a farmer in Dumfriesshire and a local businessman approached him
at Christmas time - he wanted some geese that my grandfather had.
-Geese?
-Some geese to give to his workers at Christmas time,
but he couldn't afford to
pay my grandfather for the geese so he said "I'll give you a clock"
on the condition he could have a look at it every now and again
on the mantelpiece and we've had it ever since in the family.
What a fantastic story - did your father have an interest
-in clocks, in horology?
-No, not that I know of.
But he had a good eye, obviously, he was a canny Scottish farmer.
He was, yes, he was.
And what sort of date was that? Second War?
Yeah, I think it was 1941 that it came into our possession, uh-huh.
Was it? 1941? Well, I'll tell you a little bit about the history of it.
Made around 1830, that sort of period.
On the front we've got a maker's name of R Hess of Liverpool.
-Now it's my belief that Mr R Hess
never made this clock, I suspect he was a jeweller
and it was his shop clock,
or shop timepiece,
and it would have been a wonderful looker
and it would have attracted people into the shop.
They would set their watches by the time on the clock.
-A lot of jewellery shops had a shop's regulator
or a shop's mantel clock, sometimes in the window,
but often they wanted to draw people into the shop
so they had a clock sitting on the table, or as a long case clock.
People would come and regulate their pocket watches
every day, or every week,
and they were very useful at bringing people in.
But what is particularly fun about this clock is the balance wheel
that oscillates backwards and forwards just there.
That has this lovely snaky which holds the spring which keeps
the tension for the balance wheel to oscillate backwards and forwards.
Now the faster the balance wheel oscillates,
-the faster the second hand goes round, OK?
And you can make the balance wheel go faster and slower
by adjusting the balance spring,
this spring that's coiled down that the snake is holding.
But what is even more wonderful about this
is the way that the two plates of the movement
have been pierced out in this lovely geometric design,
and when you turn the clock around it becomes even more apparent
because it's pierced out at the back,
but it's the layered design that particularly appeals as well.
It's just beautifully laid out
and the one last thing that's really good quality is when you look
at the quality of the wheel work, you will notice I don't know whether
-you've seen it, but each wheel has six spokes to each wheel.
Now the average clock has four
spokes to each wheel, a good quality clock has five spokes,
but a really good quality clock has six spokes,
it's a sign of exceptional quality.
-So, now...
the last question I have to ask - did it ever have a glass dome?
Not as far as I know.
-We've actually had a dome made for it.
-You have?
-You just didn't bring it with you.
-But didn't bring it with us.
And you don't, you didn't have the original base with it at any time?
-Wasn't original, no, no.
-Well, that's a shame
because the original base and the original dome is important to have,
you know, it's just a lovely thing to be able to have with it,
and, you know, that's life, they break.
My wife will kill me for saying this,
but she was dusting some bits and pieces off a shelf
-and an ornament broke my skeleton clock dome the other day.
And she rang me in tears. I was slightly in tears as well.
they're incredibly difficult to replace.
OK, well, much collected, this is...
a skeleton clock collector's dream.
I'd love to own it, a fantastic clock, so it has a market value.
Um, from a flock of geese.
-A good deal.
-I wonder how many it was -
and they would have gone by Christmas,
whereas here this clock is now.
-I've still got it.
-Um, open market value for this clock,
take a little bit off
for the fact that it's missing its base and its dome.
-Right, right.
-But certainly a collector today would pay
between £8,000 and £12,000 for it.
-Oh, good news.
-Thank you very much for bringing it in.
-It's a terrific clock.
-Thank you, right.
This is probably my favourite item of the day. It dates from 1602
and it's a pirlie pig. "Well, it doesn't look much like a pig"
I can hear you say, but up here in Scotland a pirlie pig
is what they call a money box,
and it used to be used in the Council to fine town councillors
if they couldn't be bothered to turn up for a meeting,
so it must have had a few bob in it.
They could probably do with something like this
in the House of Commons, if you ask me.
Well, now it's going to the local McManus Art Gallery and Museum here,
and our time here is almost up.
We've had an interesting and eclectic mix of items,
I think it's fair to say,
so from the Roadshow in Dundee, bye-bye.
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DENVER (CBS4) – The votes are in and three Rockies are through to the next round of All-Star Game starter voting.
Third baseman Nolan Arenado led all third baseman in voting. He's facing off against Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs and Josh Donaldson of the Atlanta Braves for the All-Star start at third base next month. At shortstop, Trevor Story will battle Javier Báez of the Cubs and Dansby Swanson of the Braves. Finally, in the outfield, Charlie Blackmon will face eight other players for three starting jobs, including Cody Bellinger and Joc Pederson of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers.
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WHAT CAN I DO IF INTIMATE PHOTOS OR VIDEOS ARE SHARED WITHOUT MY CONSENT?
If this has happened to you, you may be a victim of what is called "revenge porn".
What is revenge porn?
Revenge Porn refers to the electronic distribution of sexually graphic images or videos of someone without their consent.
In the age where smartphones are the norm, taking photos and videos regularly and communicating electronically, have now become very commonplace. During a sexual relationship parties may take or share photographs and videos of each other including nude or sexually graphic images.
However, when the relationship goes sour or the parties go their separate ways, the photos and/or videos may be shown to other people without the other's consent. This can be used as a tool of intimidation, blackmail and/or revenge. It can result in the infliction of hurt, pain and damage to the depicted person who did not give consent. Additionally, it can harm a person's reputation and career and lead to embarrassment, public ridicule, depression and even suicide.
A person who is the victim of revenge porn can seek redress in Trinidad and Tobago.
On October 26th, 2015, the Honourable Justice Frank Seepersad delivered a landmark ruling in the case of Therese Ho v Lendl Simmons (Case Number: CV 2014-01949) at the High Court in Trinidad and Tobago. In this case, the Claimant sought relief against the Defendant, a well-known cricketer, preventing him from disseminating private photographs of her, which were in his possession.
The parties in the matter had been in a sexual relationship. While in this relationship, photos were taken by them including nude pictures of the couple engaged in sexual acts. After the relationship ended the photos were allegedly shown to other people.
The Claimant filed an action in court, seeking an order that the Defendant:
deliver up and/or destroy/discard all the photographs and other materials he possessed of the Claimant;
an injunction restraining or prohibiting the Defendant from sharing any further photographs and other materials by internet, telephone or social media;
damages for breach of confidence;
aggravated damages; and
an order that the nude photographs of the Claimant be destroyed by the Registrar.
This case marked the first time the common law concept of breach of confidence was applied in Trinidad and Tobago to deal with a circumstance where intimate photographs taken in private had been distributed without the consent of the other party. The Honourable Justice Frank Seepersad stated that the case reinforced the Court's belief that:
"....in the absence of legislative protection, the common law concept of Breach of Confidence has to be moulded in such a way so as to address modern societal demands. The law has to be dynamic and has to develop in such a way to ensure that it remains relevant and it must be recognized that there is an obligation of conscience which requires that videos, photographs and/or recordings that capture private intimate relations, should be clothed with a quality of confidentiality…The distribution of sexually explicit images including the uploading of such material unto the internet, without the consent of the depicted subject cannot be condoned in civilized society."
The Honourable Judge went on to say that:
"While it may be difficult for some to comprehend, it appears that it is not uncommon for couples in a sexual relationship to share intimate images with each other using their mobile phones during their relationship. This practice has introduced a relatively new verb- 'sexting' – to the English language and the dissemination of graphic sexual material after relations end has been coined as 'Revenge Porn."
The Honourable Judge added that:
"…the behaviour of the Defendant cannot be condoned and demonstrated a flagrant disregard for the feelings, emotion and dignity of the Claimant with whom he shared sexual relations..."
It means that in a scenario where parties (adults) are engaged in consensual sexual activity in private, an obligation of confidentiality can be applied. This means that all photographs and recordings which capture sexual practices conducted in private, should only be disseminated where the consent of all parties has been obtained. If the photographs or recordings are shared without one of the person's consent, then there is a breach of confidentiality and the person who did not give consent can seek redress.
It should be noted that the victims of revenge porn tend to be women. This was noted by the Honourable Justice Seepersad in the same case. He stated:
"The treatment of women as mere objects of pleasure is offensive, derogatory antiquated, has no place in a civilized society and is indicative of the general lack of respect. In this society women are often treated as second class citizens and as being inferior to their male counterparts but the reality is that they are excelling in all facets of national life and they are achieving greater academic success than many of their male counterparts...Respect for individuals regardless of gender, ethnicity sexual orientation, for the law and for authority, must define the way we live and interact with each other."
While it is very important to note this, the fact that men can also be victims of revenge porn should not be disregarded. Recently I was shown an Instagram page where sexually explicit photos and videos of Trinidadian men were published to embarrass them for allegedly cheating. It appeared as though the photos and videos were shared by women who had been in relationships with the said men. If these photos and videos were shared without consent from the men, this could also be an example of revenge porn.
What can I do if I think I'm a victim of revenge porn?
The first thing you can do is save the evidence. Save message threads, images, and screenshots of social media posts and websites (with the URL visible) in a secure place, like a hard-drive or phone that's password protected.
The next thing you can do is seek legal advice to find out whether you can and should bring an action against your ex-partner for breach of confidence.
Important Notice: This post does not constitute or provide legal advice. Always consult a suitably qualified lawyer on any legal problem or issue.
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I used to practice yoga asanas for several hours each day, most often in the morning. As the first light expanded out of a purple dawn, I felt a corresponding expansion inside me.
For the first several months or so, I revelled simply in the new feeling of beginner postures, in the pulse of other people moving and breathing around me, in the flicker of the stubby candles on the window ledge. I had discovered some new and special place—it felt like a sacred place—and I carried the glow of that place around me like a secret into the rest of the world.
But those first enjoyments soon began to absorb me a little less. Out of the corner of my eye, I watched the more advanced students perform increasingly difficult postures, and I began to want to feel those things for myself. The postures and the bodies that could slip inside them seemed to express freedom, and I was hungry for that freedom. In concrete terms I wanted freedom from the oppressive writer's block that was slowly pressing down, atrophying my life as a writer. And I wanted freedom from my first relationship, which had begun when I was almost still a child and now, eight years later, no longer seemed to fit. But there were more abstract, less articulable ways in which the idea of freedom appealed to me. This more tenuous, capital "F" idea seemed to gesture at the sky, or beyond it, at something unfixed by the narrow namings of language.
The postures and the bodies that could slip inside them seemed to express freedom, and I was hungry for that freedom.
"What matters," we said to each other, "is where we are now, and not where we'll end up." I felt good speaking these words, and in many ways I meant what I said. I was untangling myself from the product-oriented mentality which had eventually sapped both a budding career as a dancer and my writing projects of their spontaneity and life. But like many things we say, the opposite is also often true, and I began to hunger for the object of those poses. Because of my strength, arm balances came relatively easily and I adorned my practice with them—feeling proud, and admonishing myself for that pride. Other kinds of postures, like lotus, seemed unattainable, and I struggled through preliminary hip-opening postures, uttering mantras of acceptance like curse words under my breath.
I began to turn all physically idle moments into opportunities for stretching. Talking to a friend at a party, I slung one bent leg up onto the kitchen counter and pressed into it, willing my external rotators to soften. She talked about her new job, teaching music to autistic children, and I nodded and asked a question—but really I was preoccupied with that dense point at the centre of my hip, that point that refused to give. I wanted to break through that point as if through the obstacle of my own anxiety. I wanted to become what was on the other side.
The work started to pay off. I began to do deeper and more complicated poses. My leg slid up over my shoulder, my hands clasped behind my back, and at the pause at the top of an inhale I glimpsed the Freedom I desired as if it were a landscape spread out beneath a high peak. One day, coming out of vasisthasana, I felt a searing heat in my pubic symphysis. Then a pop and a disconcerting wobble. My teacher said it was good pain, that I was opening up. So I limped around for a few days feeling the possibility of a new body hanging in that loose, burning space, finally within my reach.
The new body was a kind of non-body, unconstrained by sensation. I craved more and more mobility—partly so I could attain those poses in the books I had pored over, but also so that I could feel less of myself (or perhaps something less like me). In my mind, the new body was inseparable from the idea of a new self—a self untroubled by the hot sparks of my old reactivity, a self that was smooth to the touch, unobtrusive, as if vanishing into the translucency of a perpetual niceness, a flexibility that was more about pleasing others than myself. Some days I felt like water, through which anything could pass.
The new body was a kind of non-body, unconstrained by sensation.
In the morning glow of the studio, I did things I once would never have dreamed of. Meanwhile, I felt two inner voices battling for my attention: the voice of a hunger that urged me ever on, and the voice of something quieter, which began throwing niggling doubts into my heart. Wasn't this precisely the energy, this drive toward, which I had desired freedom from in the first place?
My body—the old one, the actual one, the one inseparable from gravity and old injury and sensation and memory, with the long trail behind me of sturdy-calved, unbendy peasant ancestors—began to reassert itself. I would spend two or three hours every morning trying to deepen and warm and ply myself into someone different, freer, less bound to myself. And for a short while afterward it would seem I had done that. Then slowly, somewhere between the organics section of the local grocery store and the afternoon class I was to teach, I would feel myself begin to stiffen, ache, and twinge. Folding into a first uttanasana in that afternoon class, my hamstrings announced themselves with belligerent reality. "I'm still here," said the body—the real one, not the hoped-for one, or the one hanging in space or dreams.
I wonder for how many others this arc is true: I came to yoga seeking freedom from old patterns, and I found this freedom in part. To this day, my life is softer for it. But the thing I freed myself from also found me again in the end.
And thank God. Now I wonder if this was yoga's lesson for me—that I can try to change, and I can change a little. That I can envision myself evermore lithe and pliable, in ever-smaller yoga clothes, like some magic vanishing woman with ever-sweeter things to say. That I can buy into yoga's promise of transformation. But the fact is that the specialness of yoga, the set-apartedness of it, slowly wears away, and in the end, there is still only me—a little changed perhaps, but me nonetheless—with my rough edges of anger, my melancholy, my appetites and faults, a slightly twisted sense of humour, and my wish, after all that, to be solid, fleshy, seen. And that that is okay. For a short while, I tried going harder, faster, deeper. I hurt more and more. It was like putting your hands over your ears and shouting so as not to hear what someone is saying to you. It was like walking out into the night with your eyes squeezed shut. In theory, I was all about self-acceptance. It's just that I had not yet transformed into the self I wanted to accept.
These days I still wake up early—but not for yoga, or what I call yoga. At 5 a.m., or maybe 5:30, the baby rises out of restless teething sleep. Or my four-year-old is up, excited to continue some Lego construction left half-finished on the living room floor the night before, or to ask a question I don't have an answer for, like: "Is Garret going to be my friend forever?" My body feels slow and soft, geared without my trying to this space we call "the present." Light grows slowly in the east, but we hardly notice. The kettle's on.
The tightness of my body doesn't feel anymore like an obstacle, but rather the integral bond that holds me together.
This has been on my mind today because this morning I got on my mat for the first time in a very long time. The baby was napping. The four-year-old was watching a guilty (for me, not for him) video. I have been moving almost every day. I have been running and lifting weights and kickboxing. I have been taking long walks to the water. Sometimes I do Zumba (which my former yoga-only self might have dismissed as the silliest thing in the world, with all that bouncing around to pop hits, but which my present self loves because it feels wonderful—and who cares?). I feel strong and healthy but un-preoccupied with my strength and health. The tightness of my body doesn't feel like an obstacle anymore, but rather the integral bond that holds me together.
But this morning I got on my mat. I got on my mat with the feeling of wanting to write a letter to a dear friend from whom I have drifted apart. I got on my mat to explore again those fleeting moments of internal order where the inhale climbs inevitably to its peak, and then to watch that order fall away, giving way to the unknown territory at the bottom of the exhale, that ordinary experiment with the end of everything. I got on my mat because I am also despondent at what is happening in the world right now; I am shaken with facts and guesses, action and paralysis, grief and anger, and I didn't know where else to go. In downward dog, my heels no longer press easily to the mat, my legs are no longer perfectly straight. I feel everything: my back, my hips, my legs spreading tentatively with the stretch. In downward dog now, my body says simply, "I am a body." It is a little like that first yoga class—feeling the revelatory strangeness of a foreign shape and the glow of a new mystery.


HDFC Life a premier Life Insurance brand of the company has been active on Social Media for a while now and is a notorious user of the phenomenon of humour.
The connect is visible in that humour helps keep good health and that's what the central idea of the existence of HDFC Life is!
Formerly HDFC Life ran the #StandUpOnTwitter contest in the September of 2014 which was quite a success. So much so that it came back with a sequel with Azeem Banatwalla, Kunal Kamra and Karunesh Talwar. The Brand recently hinted towards the return of #StandUpOnTwitter with teaser posts and a video on their official Social Media Channels.
Wednesday, 7th of Jan 2015 Twitter verse went abuzz with #StandUpOnTwitter contest that called for witty humour and quirky one liners from the participants. The Gratification for this Happy Go Lucky and easy contest was vouchers for winners announced every 10 minutes.
The Contest was thoroughly planned and devised in multiples phases to extract humorous responses from all the participants. The activity was carried out throughout the day to reach out to twitteratis at all points of time. Phase 1 called out for quirky lines which match the expressions of the comedians in spotlight.
The amazingly witty and quirky responses from the participants lead #StandUpOnTwitter to Trend No. 1 India Wide.
The Stage was set to reveal some more info about the live Stand Up Act featuring these popular comedians. The Brand leveraged the trending situation to release a video which announces the date and time for the live streaming of #StandUpOnTwitter.
The saga doesn't end here HDFC Life sustained the buzz and trending position by running Insane Investments. With a slightly different concept maintaining the same central idea of humour, Insane Investments is arguably directly related to the core proposition of the brand.
The phase 2 of the campaign included twitter going all out with their 'insane investments' Again the users were interacted with in a smart way, by already using the hashtag that was trending as against creating another hashtag all together.
Through investments you've made in your life it reached out encouraging its Social Media community of followers to make the right choice while investing. But here's the fun part. Through Insane investments it asked it's followers to tweet about any and every funny investment they may have made in their life.
To keep the audience engaged to #StandUpOnTwitter and bring the spotlight back to the comedians featuring in the Stand Up Act. HDFC Life announced the final phase of the Super Wednesday Campaign the most proven and trusted social media phenomenon 'Selfie' contest.
After dominating Twitter Trends at No. 1 for 4 hours, the campaign was trending all day long. All of it riding on the back of a strong community of followers and twitteratis tweeting unstoppably.
The objective of all of these campaigns is aimed at – The bigger picture. And that being The Main Event – #StandUpOnTwitter. While the core idea behind running this activity on twitter was to activate the social media universe and spread awareness about the main event which is to be held on 9th of Jan 2015, HDFC Life gained brownie points by trending No.1 on Twitter. Here, activating and nurturing the existing followers has resulted in the great amount of buzz which was leveraged to promote the event in hand. A perfect example of how the use of only followers lead to more followers and a build to the end intention of the larger campaign.
With HDFC Life's attempt at humour one can safely say the way it has favoured the Brand over the past 6 months, and so another take on the humour aspect will be imminent. Let's see how the #StandUpOnTwitter rolls out on The Day – 9th of January. Till then happy tweeting!


Step 1 – Student writes and receives feedback in their Google document writing.
Once the writing process is complete, the student will use the "open in" function in Google Drive to send their document to Explain Everything.
Step 2 – The Google document will open in Explain Everything and will act as a PDF file.
Google Document when it is first imported into Explain Everything. It will take up the entire page.
Use the pointer tool (top left) to pinch the document & make it smaller on the canvas. Then use the i (inspector) tool to lock the document in place.
Step 3 – Once the document has been imported, modified and locked, the student can begin the process of indicating which portion of the paper will have a video reflection included.
As the image below shows, the pen tool can be used to circle or indicate a section of the writing where the video reflection pertains to.
Insert a new video and use the front facing camera to insert a video reflection.
Video reflections can then be resized and moved to any location on the slide. Once created, use the inspector tool (i icon) to lock the video in place. Then, use the pen tool to indicate which portion of the paper is being explained by the video.
Multiple video reflections can be added to a single document. Notice that the record button is never used in this process. Instead, students will only record using the front facing camera when reflecting on their writing.
Step 4 – When the student is done embedding video reflection comments on their writing, the Explain Everything Project file or XPL file can be uploaded to Google Drive.
The Explain Everything file can then either be stored in a portfolio folder within Google Drive or to shared with their teacher as part of the writing process.
Uploading the XPL Project file to Google Drive.
Step 5 – If they want to, the teacher has the option to download the student created XPL project file to Explain Everything on an iPad from the shared Google Drive folder.
Once the project is downloaded, the individual embedded video files can be played back.
Notice the small play icon below each video. This allows each video to be played back.
While it is possible for a Google document to be imported into Explain Everything and the entire document could be part of a larger screencast, I like the idea of embedded video reflection comments because when the XPL project file is shared back to the teacher, the entire screencast does not have to be viewed. Instead, the teacher can simply click on specific video files to hear the commentary created by the student. Imagine the power of not only seeing the student's final draft but also to be able to hear them explain, justify, defend and articulate the ideas being their writing…powerful stuff indeed.
Want to learn more advanced features of Explain Everything? Greg Kulowiec will be teaching iPad workshops this summer in Chicago and Cambridge.


While Toad is active, when your opponent ends his main step, choose one opposing character who must attack this turn.
Toad: Mortimer Toynbee's ability deals 2 damage immediately after the opponent ends their Main Step and you have selected one opposing character. If the character has a defense of 2 or less, it is knocked out immediately before assigning to attack. If a level 3 Toad is spun down during the attack step due to an attacking character's ability (e.g, Black Widow: Tsarina) and now has a burst ( ) face, the burst ability does not trigger because attacker(s) have already been declared and Toad would have dealt the damage at the end of the opponent's Main Step.
The ability is an extension of Toad's "While active" qualifier, meaning that multiple Toads do not stack.
Hawkeye: Longbow: When fielded, Hawkeye deals his attack value in damage to a target opposing character.
^ Black Widow Tsarina and Toad. Wizkids Rules Forum. Retrieved 7-29-2015.
^ Multiple Tongue Lashings?. Wizkids.com. Retrieved 7-15-2015.


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The dissolution of a marriage is a difficult time for all persons involved and I offer caring and compassionate support for you and your family. That said we will work together to obtain all that you are entitled to receive under Florida law.
Relative adoptions may be brought by any blood relative within the third degree to adopt a child or adult.
A dependency action is brought by the State of Florida to protect an abused child.
Collaborative law is a relatively new method of dispute resolution that keeps parents co-parenting into the future for their children. The concept is an alternative to traditional litigation, allowing families an opportunity to discuss and solve their problems with the help of attorneys and neutral professionals, such as a financial expert or mental health counselor. Through a series of meetings, the professionals guide the parties to a resolution that they design for themselves. Co-parenting is possible with amicable resolution.
Paternity is established for two reasons: first, a parent who needs support for a child or second, a parent who pays support wants to establish his or her time sharing with the other parent.
A father who does not believe he is the biological father to a child may disestablish paternity and avoid child support. Time is critical to preservation of the right to disestablish once there are facts known to do so or a paternity test is done.
If you are a victim of violence at the hands of a family member or violence at the hands of a broken relationship or a victim of stalking or cyber-stalking, Florida has laws that will protect you.
If you are afraid of violence, you should immediately seek help by calling 911.
FavorHouse of Northwest Florida is a shelter for protection: 850.434.1177.
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A strange title for a bittersweet love story. Benny and Shrimp (real name Desiree) are both middle aged and lonely. Benny is a dairy farmer who never went to college while Shrimp is a librarian and an avid reader/philosophizer. They meet in a cemetery and fall in love, only to realize that perhaps the passion they feel towards each other may not necessarily carry their relationship into the future. The best relationships are founded on compromise, but are the two willing to sacrifice parts of their lives for each other?
A quick read, but a thoughtful one at that.


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SCS board votes to close Gateway University charter school following investigation
Jennifer Pignolet
The Shelby County Schools board voted 8-0 Tuesday night to shut down Gateway University charter school at the end of this academic year.
The school will have the chance to appeal to the state Board of Education.
An SCS investigation showed the school used two unlicensed teachers as long-term substitutes, and it failed to hire a geometry teacher.
All seven students who supposedly took a geometry class earned the same grade of a 92 percent. The teacher of record listed for the geometry class was also listed as teaching an algebra class that met at the same time.
The school did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
In a hearing Monday, the school's founder and CEO, Sosepriala Dede, acknowledged the school made mistakes but said the issues were "symptomatic of a school in its infancy."
Parents and students came to the board meeting Tuesday to speak in favor of keeping Gateway open.
"Use your tools to empower Gateway, not close Gateway," parent Chandra Boykins pleaded to the board.
Parent Sheris Richmond said the school made an effort to recruit students from challenging neighborhoods across the city.
"Gateway has been an inspiration to my children," she said.
SCS Chief of Strategy and Innovation Brad Leon said just before the vote the issues at Gateway were ongoing, and eight of the school's 14 current teachers are either unlicensed or teaching outside of their certified subject areas.
Of the seven students who took geometry last year, four are retaking the course this year, which Leon said indicates the grade they were given was not reflective of their learning.
The school has 165 students in grades nine and 10.
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G'day is the second studio album by Finnish jazz trio Trio Töykeät. It was released in January 1993 under EmArcy Records and is available through their Jazz Finland reseller.

Track listing

Personnel
Eerik Siikasaari - Bass
Rami Eskelinen - Drums
Heikki Savolainen - Engineer, Producer
IIro Rantala - Piano
Rick Margitza - Saxophone
Antti Murto - Synthesizer

External links

1993 albums
Trio Töykeät albums
EmArcy Records albums

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CURRENT EVENT | NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Animal Eye Shapes
Animals biology Evolution
If you have looked closely at the eyes of different animals, you will notice their pupils come in various shapes: round, vertical or horizontal ovals or crescents. Scientists now think they know the reason behind the shape of some animals' pupils. There is diversity in shape because it depends on how big the animal is and whether it's a predator or prey. It also relates to their view of the horizon. Listen to hear more about the new discovery and what it can tell us about animals and evolution.
Endangered Pangolins
The animal that tops the illegal wildlife trade is surprising. It's not an elephant or tiger, but an exotic anteater called a Pangolin. This animal is a mammal with scales, has a tongue the size of its body, and an unfortunate self-defense mechanism. They are on their way to becoming extinct because their scales are used in Asian medicine and their meat is considered delicious in some countries. Some organizations are petitioning to list the Pangolin as endangered in the U.S. Listen to hear more about the efforts to save the Pangolin.
Horse Versus Human
Are animals faster than humans? Common sense says horses are faster, but scientists say humans have the edge in marathon distances. Ancient man used to chase his dinner; thus, people have adapted to run long distances. This adaptation is put to the test every year in England when humans race horses on a 22-mile course through Wales. It's an annual competition that started in 1980. Listen to find out who won the race this year and who has evolved to be faster.
Helping the Blind See
Human embryonic stem cells are able to become any kind of tissue in the body. Because of this, many researchers see huge potential for curing and preventing disease. Up until now this has been theory, but a new study has had early success in using stem cells to improve the eyesight of the blind. This sound-rich story takes you into the operating room to hear the eye surgery and meet someone whose life was changed by the procedure.


Born: 1878, New Romney, Kent, England.
Died: 17 March 1957, Cape Town, South Africa.
L.E.W. Bevan qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS) in London in 1904. Later that year both he and C.E. Gray* attended a brief post-graduate course in pathology and bacteriology at the Royal Veterinary College in London. Gray*, who was then in charge of the Veterinary Department of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), recruited Bevan to head a bacteriological institute there. Bevan arrived in the territory in 1905 and during the next three decades produced about 40 scientific papers. In December 1905 he married Violet Soulen Mary Land in Cape Town.
In 1907 Bevan published a "Preliminary report on so-called stiff sickness or three-day sickness in Rhodesia" (Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics), in which he reported a number of outbreaks of the disease (also known as ephemeral fever) in the north-western parts of the territory. However, it was not a new disease, as it was recognised by the older native inhabitants. He published a second paper, "Ephemeral fever", in the Veterinary Journal in 1912. Meanwhile, however, he realised that the facilities for research were poor and that he had to do field work as well. He therefore resigned in 1908 and for some time worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Around 1910 Bevan returned to Southern Rhodesia and was appointed as government veterinary bacteriologist, although adequate research facilities became available only from 1922. He spent most of his career doing research on trypanosomiasis (Nagana), on which he read a paper in 1911 before the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. The paper was published in the association's Report (pp. 135-149) for that year. However, he found time also to investigate several other diseases. In 1912, a year after blackquarter in cattle was first noted in Southern Rhodesia, he published a paper on this disease in which he compared it to a disease of sheep in England known as "struck". That same year he described "The anaplasmosis of cattle" (tick-borne gall sickness) in the Veterinary Journal. Still in 1912 and in 1913 he produced two papers, both published in the Veterinary Journal, on bovine piroplasmosis (redwater) in Southern Rhodesia and the effectiveness of immunising imported cattle against it.
In 1911 Bevan published a paper on "The transmission of horse-sickness through the dog by feeding" in the Agricultural Journal of Southern Rhodesia. Further experiments that year confirmed that the disease could be transmitted from horses or mules to dogs that ate the meat of infected animals, and to horses again by injections of blood. It is recorded that Bevan produced a horsesickness vaccine based on virus attenuated by passage through dogs. This vaccine was used in the territory until 1932.
In 1921 Bevan was appointed as the first Director of Veterinary Research of Southern Rhodesia, stationed in Salisbury (now Harare). During the next few years he published two papers on contagious abortion in cattle (brucellosis). In the first of these, "Infectious abortion of cattle and its possible relation to human health", published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1922), he was the first to suggest that the disease can spread from cows to humans. His views were soon confirmed, when Orpen in 1924 found that the strains of the bacterium Brucella abortus extracted from affected cows and humans were identical.
By 1910 Bevan was a member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. He retired to Pinelands, Cape Town, where he died in 1957.
Google scholar. http://scholar.google.co.za Publications by L.E.W. Bevan.
Manson-Bahr, P.H. Manson's tropical diseases (13th ed., p. 318). London: Cassell, 1950.
South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Report, 1910, list of members; 1911, paper by Bevan.
Southern Rhodesia. Report of the Director of Agriculture, 1911-1915.


Anyway, I think I know why Donna is my fav Companion, deep down inside she truly believed that she was a nobody, a nothing.
I am like that a lot.
Re-watching "The end of time."
Why do I need to cry today?
So I'm just gonna go with it.


I had my eye on Aqua Cycle in New York for over a year. A spinning class done in the water on submerged bikes seemed pretty spectacular, couple that with an ambiance of classical music and candles and I was sold.
I had several awkward moments, the first happened before I even got to the pool. I was trying to sneak by a naked woman in the locker room without rubbing up against her and I fell against the wall hitting the light switch which in turn cast part of the locker room into darkness. Thankfully my friend Emily was with me and I got to share a laugh with her, one of many to occur in the hour long class.
It's rare for me to purposefully put myself in a situation where I am in a swimsuit in a pool with strangers. I remedied this by wearing a tank top and workout pants, which worked fairly well until the crotch of my pants snagged on the seat during a move that had us placing our hands on the bike seat and and lifting ourselves on to the bike from behind.
The class instructor Emma Galland, is a certified holistic health coach and nutritionist as well as the author of "Feeding Success" and the owner of Goji Fitness, and if that wasn't enough she has also co-created a vegan, organic superfood protein powder called Zenberry. I was very impressed with Emma, her entrepreneurial endeavors as well as the way she effortlessly led our class with a cast on her arm.
She adjusted my bike for me, and due to my height I stuck out of the water far past my neighbors, it felt a bit like I was back in elementary school towering over my classmates in our school picture.
The bike has no resistance dial like in an above water spinning class, the resistance is solely up to the rider, at first it felt like riding a bike with a broken chain with my pedals spinning fast and in an uneven jerky sort of pattern but soon enough I got into a rhythm and must have been doing something right because my leg muscles were on fire! We moved our way through three positions, sitting, standing and finally pedaling while floating behind the bike.
Aqua Cycling is popular in Europe but currently the only place to spin in a salt water pool is in TriBeCa. The classes are a bit pricey but if I lived locally I would try to find a way to support the habit.
Superbowl Weekend – NYC Baby!
I was able to finally get out of New Orleans just in time to meet up with some friends in New York for Super Bowl weekend. I had such an amazing time in Seattle amongst the Seahawks buzz that I wanted to experience it with some of my friends who are the biggest fans. I knew I wasn't going to be able to go to the game, I didn't have an extra $2500 for a ticket but to be there before and after the big win was spectacular!
The days were spent walking amongst the chaos of Times Square and its blocks upon blocks of Super Bowl activities. These blocks were close to a living hell for me with people stacked liked dominoes. It took us what seemed like an hour to walk one block and I came as close as possible to a panic attack that I have in my entire life. Thankfully, we had seen enough and I was able to escape the madness.
While the crowds were too much for my taste the amount of Seahawks fans within these crowds were amazing! Everywhere you looked there was a 12th Man donning a jersey. We ended up at various pubs in the evenings packed with Seahawks fans, everywhere we went there they were!
In addition to spending time with other Hawk fans and friends I also got some more time in New York City. I was able to spend time with my local friends as well as revisit some of my favorite spots.
A weekend filled with good friends in an amazing city topped off with a Seahawks Super Bowl win really can't be topped, though I will try.


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Q: .gethostbyaddr() does not work on all devices. Why? (Python) I wrote a script that goes through all local IPs in the '0' network (192.168.0.*).
I use a loop with socket.gethostbyaddr(ip_modified_by_the_loop_each_time).
The loop returns me 3 devices their hostnames.
Now, I found that it does not find 4 devices (at least).

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*It does wind my Windows Laptop, not my Android Phone. It does find

*one MacBook, not the iMac, not the other MacBook. It also does not

*find any phone.

I know that all the devices are online and have an IPv4 address.
I can ping them very well, it responds just fine. But when I use socket.gethostbyaddr(ip_modified_by_the_loop_each_time) it throws an error.
I used a try:/except: statement to get around the error, but it still can not find my phone by IP and get the hostname, but I know it is there.
I am using python 3.3
Why is that happening, how to fix that?
Thank you.

A: gethostbyaddr tries to find out the hostname for a given IP address by using either locally stored information (i.e. /etc/hosts) or doing a reverse DNS lookup. The result does not depend on the host being online or not, they only depend on the availability of these information.
And these information can also not be trusted. For example the DNS operator of a domain could add the following records:
  test.example.com       A    public.ip.of.test
  public.ip.of.test      PTR  localhost.

In this case a lookup (gethostbyname) of test.example.com would return the IP address of this host while a reverse lookup (gethostbyaddr) would claim that the hostname is localhost. And if the PTR record would be missing gethostbyaddr would fail, even if the host is online.
See also wikipedia: reverse dns lookup.

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