Each Saturday night the indefatigable Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings posts an article inviting fellow Geneabloggers to join him in some fun, usually a little exercise on the lighter side of family history. This informal but regular event is a popular one in the geneablogging community but, for one reason or another, I haven't yet got around to participating. This weekend's challenge is what Randy calls "Ahntenafel Roulette," and I thought I'd get in on the act for the first time, albeit a few days late. So here goes.
(3) write three things about this ancestor in a blog article.
My dad would have been eighty-one this year, which produces a rounded integer of 20. Because of the regular and reproducible manner in which the Ahtenafel system works, number 20 is the paternal grandfather of one's paternal grandmother, one of eight possible great-great-grandfathers. In my case his name was Jabez Brown and he has been one of the more elusive of my Victorian ancestors.
I have recently established from the acquisition of their death certificates that Jabez Brown died on 14 February 1921 and his wife Annie died on 18 August 1914. The implication is that Jabez and Annie's son Frederick Montague Brown (1870-1960) - my great-grandfather - wrote the inscription referring to his parents, and it therefore seems very likely that the subject of the photograph was Fred's father. This rather battered paper print is the only known surviving portrait that we have of Jabez and, sadly, we have none of his wife at all.
Ten years ago I would have struggled to find three solid facts concerning Jabez Brown about which I could write authoritatively. My original information came from my father, who as a "steam age," pre-computer/internet family historian had created a card index system to document and rationalize the family history. Some of his material about the Brown family had originated with his cousin Gillian through correspondence in the 1990s. All we knew about Jabez was his name, that he worked for the railways, and a possible death date. As he died some years before my father was born, my dad had no first hand knowledge of him, and didn't recall his mother speaking much about her grandfather either.
Those of you who have been researching for over a decade or so may recall the microfiche version of the 1881 Census (produced by the Federation of Family History Societies in conjunction with the Genealogical Society of Utah). A kind fellow genealogist found Jabez and family and extracted the information for me that he was born in Dent (Yorkshire) around 1843, that he was married to Annie, with whom he had four children, that they were living at 14 Rose Hill Street, Litchurch (near Derby) and he was working as a railway clerk. And that was about it. From the birth places of their children I deduced that they had previously lived in Nottingham and Lincoln. I wondered if he had moved around while working for the railways, as Lincoln and Nottingham were both main line stations of the company Midland Railway, which had its headquarters in Derby. However, I had no real evidence to work with.
Ten years later and things have changed considerably, mostly courtesy of the internet and the improved means of genealogical research that it has enabled. I now have images of the original census sheets for the census every decade from 1851, when Jabez was still living with his parents, until 1901 - see image above - by which time his own children had all left home.
I also have Jabez Brown's birth, marriage and death certificates, all obtained from the General Register Office using their certificate ordering service and reference numbers from FreeBMD. The census and BMD information alone has provided an excellent framework of dates and locations on which to hang the story of his life. I would find it very difficult to restrict myself to only three things that I now know about him, so I won't bother to hold back in sharing the picture that I've built up about Jabez and his family.
Jabez Brown was born in the small and picturesque village of Dent, situated in the West Yorkshire dales, on Tuesday 18 April 1843. He was the youngest of ten children of a sawyer William Brown (1795-1867) and his wife Dorothy née Parrington (1797-1858). By the time of his birth his two oldest brothers had already married and left home, although they were still living nearby in the village. Then, in the late 1840s, the entire Brown family moved, lock, stock and barrel to the town of Lancaster. I don't know why they moved, but I can surmise that it was for economic reasons - most internal migrations in mid-Victorian England were towards better employment prospects. Presumably the town of Lancaster was booming and needed plenty of sawn timber, and a skilled sawyer was no doubt in more demand than in a small Yorkshire village.
By 1861 Jabez (aged 17) and his older sister Margaret were living with their widowed father at 3 Upper Robert Street in Lancaster. Jabez is shown in the census working as a railway clerk, and it is presumed that he was employed by Midland Railways which, according to contemporary trade directories, served this Lancashire town.
Some time during the next four years Jabez moved to Lincoln (Lincolnshire), which was also on the Midland Railways network. He married Annie Hazard (1835-1914) at St Peter-at-Arches, Lincoln in October 1865; the marriage certificate shows his occupation mnerely as "clerk" and states that he was living at 15 Park Street. Their first son George was born at Lincoln in January 1867, but between then and 1870 they moved to Nottingham.
They lived at number 18 Rye Hill Cottages, in a close on the south side of Kirke White Street, Exchange Ward, and that is where Annie gave birth to twin boys named Christopher Dickenson and Frederick Montague Brown (my great-grandfather) on 17 April 1870. The actual building where they lived was probably one of the Victorian terraced houses shown in the photograph above, taken a century later, just before they were demolished under a 1970s clearance scheme. It was located in the former King's Meadow area, not far from Nottingham's Midland Railway station. The census of a year later shows Jabez again working as a railway clerk. A daughter Maggie and another son John Henry were born in 1872 and 1875, but sadly the elder of the twins Christopher died in late 1872, aged two-and-a-half.
Some time in the twelve months prior to November 1880, the Brown family moved to Derby and into a house at 14 Rose Hill Street, Litchurch. Jabez again described himself to the 1881 Census enumerator as a railway clerk.
In June 1887 Jabez Brown stood unsuccessfully for election for the post of Relieving Officer with the Derby Board of Guardians (The Derby Mercury, 22 Jun 1887). The Derby Borough Electoral Registers show them living at the Rose Hill Street address until October 1887, after which they moved to 50 Sale Street, also in the suburb of Litchurch and only a few blocks away. By census night of 5 April 1891 all three sons - George (23), Fred (20) and John (15) - had become railway clerks too! This was the last census that would find all of the family together in one house. George married a year later and moved to Station Road, Borrowash (just east of Derby). Fred married my great grandmother Edith Newman Miller at Mugginton in 1894; they settled first at 18 St Giles Road, Pear Tree, Derby, and in the early 1900s at 121 Crewe Street, Normanton. John became a commercial traveller and moved to Nottingham, where he married prior to 1901. It is not known what happened to daughter Maggie Brown.
Annie Brown died at 60 Holcombe Street, Litchurch on 18 August 1914. Jabez's death certificate shows that he died on 14 February 1921 at Boundary House, Derby. Boundary House was the former Derby Workhouse in Uttoxeter Road. After 1948 it was known as the Manor Hospital, and it was where my grandfather died in 1975 too. I can remember my father telling me that it still had all the old connotations of being the former workhouse, and my grandfather had a dread of going in there when he got sick.
Instead of restricting myself to three things that I know concerning my great-great-grandfather Jabez, I'm going to list three things that I still want to find out about him. The first of these concerns some Crimean War medals that my father recalled seeing in the Brown family household when he was a boy - that is, the family of his maternal grandparents Fred & Edith Brown - together with clasps for several of the battles. He didn't know who had earned them, but presumed it was a member of the Brown family. Sadly, nobody seems to know what has happened to them. The Crimean War took place between 1853 and 1856, when Jabez was aged 10 to 13, and it seems rather unlikely that he was the one, unless he was perhaps a drummer boy, but who else in that branch of the family could it have been? What happened to the medals, and who earned them? I hope to answer that question one day.
The next thing I'd like to know is where Jabez and Annie Brown are buried. The location seems likely to have been the Nottingham Road Cemetery in Derby, about which I have written previously, since several other of my Derby family were buried there during that time frame. Created in 1855, it was the first municipal cemetery in Derby and is still used to this day. The cemetery registers are kept on site, but sadly they don't appear to have either an online presence or an email address. Perhaps they are wary of the flood of enquiries such a move might precipitate.
Lastly, I'd like to able to confirm that Jabez Brown's employer from the early days in Lancaster until his retirement was indeed, as I have always assumed, Midland Railways. An article in The Derby Mercury in June 1887 stated that he had "been a collector on the Midland Railway for 25 years," giving a start date of around 1865, when he would have been about 22 years old. However the 1861 Census, taken four years earlier, also showed him working as a railway clerk. In January this year, my cousin Lynne Tedder from Alberta sent me some photocopied Midland Railway staff records dating from 1881 to 1906 for George William Brown which she had very kindly obtained on a visit to the National Archives at Kew, London. However, she could find nothing for William's father Jabez or William's brothers.
Seddon, Peter (2007) Nottingham Road Cemetery - Derbeians at Rest. Bygone Derbyshire.
I have written previously (here) about Derby's first photographers John Johnson and Thomas Roberts, who operated daguerreotype studios in Victoria Street from the summer of 1843 until September 1845, under license from Richard Beard. From then until about 1854, there appears to have been a hiatus in commercial photographic activity in the town.
Then, in the early to mid-1850s, with the expiry of the patent on the daguerreotype process and the popularisation of Frederick Scott Archer's patent-free wet-collodion process, there was a sudden and rapid flurry of photographic activity in Derby. Most, if not all, of the photographic artists who appeared are likely to have been offering collodion-positive portraits, or ambrotypes as they were popularly known.
... an exact likeness for 6d., beautifully shaded, 1s. 6d., extra finished in bronze, 2s. Full length figures highly finished in bronze, 4s.; children's full lengths, 2s. 6d. Miniatures on ivory and coloured likenesses at very low charges. Families attended without any extra charge.
William Seville was baptised on 5 March 1797 in the chapelry of Hey, at Lees near Oldham, north-east of Manchester, one of seven children of Joseph and Sarah Seville (or Sevill). According to the biographical notes in Sue McKechnie's British Silhouette Artists and their Work 1760-1860, William Seville started working as a silhouette artist in Manchester shortly before 1820 (Woodiwiss, 1965).
It appears that he almost immediately started travelling widely as an itinerant artist, with a record of his being in North Shields (Northumberland) in April 1820 (Jackson, 1911).
without either drawing or machine"
At around this time - the exact date is unknown - William Seville probably married Frances Bethell (1803-1837), daughter of Joseph and Fanny Bethell of Chester. William's son Frederick William Seville was born at Durham (City) around 1824 or 1825. Certainly by April 1824 he was working in nearby Newcastle-on-Tyne. The silhouette portrait illustrated above - the subject of which has been tentatively identified as the splendidly monikered Miss Margaret Clutterbuck, daughter of eminent Northumbrian John Clutterbuck and his wife Ann Lyon - may have been from this or a later period.
Seville was also in Lancaster during 1824, and then in Dundee from April 1825; McKechnie suggests that he may have spent much of that year in Scotland. There is a suggestion that he worked in East Anglia during the late 1820s in partnership with fellow artist John Stannard.
In August 1830 Seville was plying his trade in Castletown, Dublin, Ireland, known from a dated portrait (McKechnie).
By September 1832 he appears to have been working in Preston (Lancashire) judging from the advertisement which appeared in The Preston Chronicle in that month, which suggests he had also taken "thousands of likenesses in Bolton, Lancaster, Edinburgh, &c.." His wife Fanny died at Sheffield on 10 May 1837 "after a long and painful illness," as reported in The Manchester Times and Gazette (13 May 1837).
By August 1838, William Seville was working at Bangor in Wales. Apart from his usual full range of silhouettes, he also offered to teach the art of making wax flowers and gave lessons in landscape and flower painting, mezzotinting, velvet painting, &c."
A newspaper report a week later suggested that he was finding a steady stream of customers, but his last advertisements on 4 September and 2 October reported his intention to leave "in the course of a few days."
McKechnie suggests that Seville had returned to Ireland by August 1842, and believes that his son may have been assisting him by this time. His son would have been about seventeen years old by then, and since neither of them has been located in the 1841 Census of the United Kingdom, it seems quite likely that they had both taken the short journey from Liverpool across the Irish Sea.
This is supported by a dated and signed silhouette of the Smyth family now in a private collection. An image of the label on the reverse kindly sent to me by Peggy McClard, who used to own the silhouette, states that it was "cut with scissors by F.W. Seville / Drogheda / Novr. 1842." A Dublin newspaper advertisement of February 1843, shown above, indicates that they remained there for some months.
By January 1845 Seville was in Shrewsbury (Shropshire), as evidenced by a dated portrait and handbill (McKechnie).
The next sighting of Seville is when he appeared in Derby in March 1850. Business remained fairly brisk until early June, when the appearance of another advertisement suggested an impending departure from Derby.
It is not clear what William Seville did for the next five years, although it is clear that this was probably one of the most challenging periods of his career, with daguerreotype photography - and the rapid introduction of collodion portraits after 1854 - providing some serious competition to his now old-fashioned silhouettes.
On census night Sunday 30 March 1851, William Seville's son Frederick William was lodging with a bookseller's wife in the small village of North Tawton in Devon. He described himself as an artist. Sadly, his father is nowhere to be found - perhaps he was travelling in Ireland again.
William Seville returned to Derby in mid-August 1855, the evidence being in the form of an advertisement in The Derby Mercury offering collodion photographic portraits at the "reduced" price of 2s. each, case included, from premises at No. 51 St Peter's Street, Derby, directly opposite St Peter's church.
This view looking north up St Peter's Street was probably taken around 1890, some 35 years after Seville was there. The photograph belongs to Nigel Aspdin and shows the draper's shop of Hurd & Dean - number 54 St Peter's Street, at centre right - John Dean (1853-1918) being a relation of Nigel's. Although the building at number 54 was probably built after Seville's era, it seems likely that number 51 was located in a yard behind the shops. This would have been accessible through an alley to the right of the drapery shop, an archway to which can just be seen in a detailed version of the image (here).
While his name was not mentioned in that particular edition of the newspaper, it is clear from a similar insertion four weeks later, on 12 September, that it was Seville who had succumbed to market forces and was trying his hand at the then fairly new wet collodion photographic process.
At the onset of the Christmas season, the business had acquired the rather grand name of the "Crystal Palace Portrait Gallery." The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park, London to house the hugely popular Great Exhibition of 1851, but relocated to Sydenham in 1854. In the same year a book entitled The Portrait Gallery of the Crystal Palace by Samuel Phillips was published, being an official handbook or catalogue of portraits of eminent Victorians chosen for display at the exhibition. It is possible that Seville intended a play on the title of this book for added publicity.
He remained in Derby for several months more, long enough at least to appear in White's 1857 trade directory, presumably compiled in late 1856, at the same address. It is worth noting that while Seville inserted advertisements in many newspapers over the years, advertising his presence in a particular town for a few weeks or perhaps months, this is the only trade directory entry found thus far, indicative of the itinerant nature of his trade. There is no evidence that he ever operated a photographic studio in his presumed home town of Manchester.
In late 1856 Frederick William Seville had married and settled in Shrewsbury (Shropshire), with a daughter being born to him and his wife Elizabeth late the following year. By early April 1861 William Seville had joined them, living in Shoplatch, close to the centre of the town where his son operated a photographic studio and tobacconist. Now aged 64, he described himself to the census enumerator as a retired artist.
William Seville died in 1866 at the age of 68. Frederick William Seville continued to reside in Shrewsbury with his wife and three children, and described himself in census records as both artist and photographer until at least 1881. The dated silhouette portrait of H.E. Smallwood from 1841 shown above is ascribed to F.W. Seville.
Watercolour, signed and inscribed by F.W. Seville, 21" x 14.5"
No photographic portraits by the younger Seville have been located but he became a well known watercolourist, producing many views of late Victorian Shrewsbury. The watercolour shown above depicts an event which occurred on 11 February 1894, and is likely to have been painted shortly afterwards.
F.W. Seville's son, also named Frederick William, continued the tradition and became a photographer too, being listed with this profession in Shrewsbury by 1891 at the age of 23. After the death of both of his parents in 1899 he moved to Congleton (Cheshire), where his sister and brother-in-law were living, and was shown working from premises at 10 Lawton Street as late as 1914 (Jones & Jones, 1995).
After a career spanning some four decades William Seville left a vast body of work, probably amounting several thousand silhouettes. While only a small proportion of these have survived the subsequent century and a half, silhouettes by Seville appear not to be particularly uncommon. The status of any surviving collodion portraits, however, is unknown. Judging by the fact that many, if not most, of his silhouettes were identified with a label, it seems likely that his cased ambrotypes would have been similarly marked. I am hopeful that eventually one of his photographic portraits will surface.
I am very grateful to Cynthia McKinley for her generosity in allowing me to reproduce images of silhouettes in her collection and for providing me with material about William Seville's life and work. Cynthia's web site Wigs on the Green is an excellent source of information about silhouettes and silhouette artists.
Post Script: Thank you, too, to Peggy McClard who sent me images and information about the Smyth family silhouette, and gave me permission to use them to illustrate this article. Peggy has an absorbing web site Peggy McClard Antiques, devoted to antique silhouettes, Americana and related folk art, which is well worth a visit.
Jones, Gillian A. & Jones, Graham (1995) Professional Photographers in Cheshire 1849-1940. Bath, England: Royal Photographic Society Historical Group. The PhotoHistorian Supplement, No. 108, July 1995, 40p. ISSN 09570209.
McKinley, Cynthia. Guide to Collecting Silhouettes. Wigs on the Green web site.
Read, Gillian (1982) Manchester Photographers 1840-1900. Bath, England: Royal Photographic Society Historical Group Newsletter, Supplement No. 59, 1982, 20p.
Jackson, E. Nevill (1982) Silhouettes: A History & Dictionary of Artists, Dover Publications. ISBN 0486242102.
Jackson, E. Nevill (1911) The History of Silhouettes, The Connoisseur. 121p.
Woodiwiss, John (1965) British Silhouettes, Country Life, 104p.
Hoping to sneak in unnoticed at the last minute, I'm submitting this short photoessay as my contribution to the 17th Edition of the Smile For The Camera carnival, "School Days" hosted by the footnoteMaven at Shades of the Departed.
The photographs from my own family collection which I've featured on this blog in the past have mostly tended to come from the English side, to the detriment of my mother's Dutch heritage. Today I thought it would be nice to include a series of group portraits featuring my Oma - in other words, my maternal grandmother - first as a young scholar, then as a student at teacher training college, and finally as a teacher in charge of her own class of young boys and girls.
My Oma Hendrika Louisa Schipper was born at 's Gravenhage on 14 May 1894, the youngest of four children of Jan Schipper (1857-1921) and Hendrika Antonia Annetta Helena de Graaff (1854-1934). They lived in Den Haag (The Hague) where her father was secretary to the Director of the Cabinet of Queen Wilhelmina. The first two class photos were obviously taken at the same school - the windows of the building which forms the backdrop appear to be identical - but probably a couple of years apart. In the first I estimate that she is aged about nine, so it must have been taken around 1902 to 1904. Apart from my grandmother, there are two adults, presumably both teachers, and forty four other children.
The second group shows her three or four years older, so was probably taken between 1905 and 1908. One of the two adults is the same man who was there two years earlier, so he is perhaps a headmaster rather than a class teacher. Several of the boys and girls from the first portrait are clearly identifiable in the second. I only spent a few minutes comparing them, and was able to comfortably correlate three or four, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are far more.
The next two photographs are from this period that she was training to be a teacher. I know that because one of them (that shown above) was given to me a few years ago by Martje Knoester, whose mother-in-law trained as a teacher with my grandmother. The postcard style group portrait was taken in the Foto Americaine studio at Wagenstraat 10, Den Haag.
The next is a larger group, and judging by the fact that my grandmother looks slightly younger, was possibly taken slightly earlier than the previous one. It has been taken indoors, but it is not clear whether in a studio, at the school where they were studying or another location altogether.
The final two group photographs show my grandmother as a teacher surrounded by her pupils. The first - I only refer to it as the first because she appears to me slightly younger in this one - is a larger group of twenty four children (ten boys and fourteen girls) aged perhaps 12 or 13 years old. They are arranged standing and sitting on the steps in frontog large wooden double doors in a brick wall, with my grandmother seated on a chair.
The second appears to be at the same location (although the doors are open) and is probably a year or two later. The class is a slightly smaller one - 22 instead of 24 - composed of slightly younger children, aged about nine or ten. This time there are more boys than girls.
On the 23rd December 1920 Hendrika married my Opa Dirk Smit (1895-1985) in Amsterdam. Their first child (my uncle) only arrived in 1926, so she may have carried on working as a teacher for a few more years - I'm not sure about that. However, there don't appear to be any more class photos for the period of her life after she was married.


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Barbershop (2002)
Posted on June 13, 2004 by Felix Vasquez
"Barbershop" is a smart, clever, and well-written piece of filmmaking that stars an ensemble cast of predominant African American actors, all talented. Ice Cube is Calvin Palmer, the son of a beloved barber who inherits his father's old barbershop and takes it for granted mostly running the shop for his father's sake, viewing it as a waste of time and money. But when he has aspirations of starting a record company, he secretly sells it to local neighborhood loan shark Lester Wallace and slowly begins moving everything out from under the employees who have a bond, and function as a family. I was surprised with this film, because of the screenplay which invokes a large array of truly hilarious and likable characters.
Possibly the most appealing being Terri Jones played well by rapper turned actor Eve who has a cheating philandering boyfriend she keeps going back to. She's the only girl in the barbershop but surely enough has balls and barks like any of the other men in the shop. There's an eclectic and appealing array of characters that I just couldn't get over because I've seen these types of characters, I've talked to them, and I've been to barbershops that form their own little community within the confines of a small shop and have a brotherhood, and you want to see more of them as the film progresses. The screenplay written by Mark Brown, Don D. Scott, and Marshall Todd create a very smart screenplay that never knocks its characters down a peg and fully realizes their potential and on-screen presence. Each of the talented cast is never wasted and everyone seems to shine including Cedric the Entertainer.
He's the funniest character in the bunch, playing Eddie the only senior in the bunch, a ranting raving barber who lectures, and insults and breaks apart society with his hilarious anecdotes of wisdom. Inside the barbershop is where the best stuff happens and it's a shame, because outside is where it all seems to fall apart at the seams creating a subplot that has little to no interesting aspects and seems to just detract away from the story as Anthony Anderson star in a subplot about their theft next door to the barbershop in which they steal an ATM machine and attempt to pry it open for the money. While that sets things up for humorous situations, I hardly found it relevant to the story at hand and with either of the characters. It seemed tacked on and like a completely different movie that failed to draw my interest.
The subplot contributes nothing to the film and pretty much wastes time while it should be focusing on the barbershop. There's nothing wrong with focusing entirely on the barbershop, and the writers seem to show that they don't have enough faith to focus solely on the barbershop or its characters but instead delves into the nonsensical and unfunny subplot. Ice Cube shines as the charming lead Calvin who's conflicted to sell the shop to start his career or keep it because it's a token of his father's memory and a capsule of people who are a family connected to one place. "Barbershop" captures the old time friendships and bonds people form and brings it onto the screen; the screenplay gives us characters we can relate to, characters we can fall for, the cast of talented ensemble actors shine and make this an entertaining and memorable experience that can not be missed.
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It's the end of another school year. Today our seniors will graduate and they'll experience the joy of their community coming together to celebrate this huge accomplishment and then, after all the partying, after all the dinners, they'll begin a new phase in their lives.
Congratulations class of 2018! We will miss you. LAHSA will miss you.
This is our final episode of season 3. Like it's been our tradition for the past two seasons, this final episode is dedicated to the individual stories of the staff of the Four-O-Eight. So much of their time they have spent it exploring the stories of other students, of other lives, and now it's their turn. And, boy, do we have an episode for you.
Yrah Rayos del Sol is a happy soul. She can make you smile and laugh with her silliness and her energy. She's a great actor, a talented singer and, overall, a strong human being. In this first segment Yrah shares a story that demonstrates this strength and also gives us a peek into the world that surrounds her and from where she grabs her strength.
Kayla Ybarra is a natural story-teller. From the moment I met her I knew she would be an asset to the AP Lit class because of the passionate way she speaks about reading and literature in general. I have seen Kayla's strength and courage. I have learned about the obstacles that she's had to overcome, that she continues trying to overcome. In this next segment Kayla shares a story that she comes back to, again, and again, like how we come back to the things that are difficult and exhausting to unravel.
Every time my students do this assignment I am reminded of everything they carry with them as they make their way through life. I am always amazed by their strength and courage and their ability to survive. And I'm also reminded of how important it is for help to be available for them to deal with the, sometimes, emotional trauma they carry, that it's not enough to simply acknowledge their pain as if the simple act of adults knowing is of any consolation or of any help. In this next segment, Sally Melchor talks about the importance of talking, of solving, of not letting things fester.
High school friendships are important, I think. You learn about yourself through your interaction with people and high school is when you're starting to pay attention to who you are, you know, to the nuance of you. In this next segment Reyna Morales discusses friendship, what it has meant for her and how her views have evolved in the last year.
Carlos Garcia is a quiet dude. He always seems lost in thought, as if he's contemplating the meaning of all that surrounds him. He's one of those kids I wish I would have had more conversations with, more time to bond. In this next segment, Carlos shares the power of dreams and how dreams can sometimes be powerful allies in life.
I can't think of Bryant Hernandez and not think of music. It's impossible. I think that's true for anyone at LAHSA, students and faculty alike. You can tell by the way he is immersed in whatever is playing in his headphones that when he is listening to music he is in the music and that everything outside his head has blurred. In this next segment, Bryant explores this and lets us peek into this world in which he belongs.
I want to thank the entire staff of The Four-O-Eight for all their hard work and dedication to this Podcast. You are amazing human beings and we're gonna miss you here at LAHSA. I can't wait to see you walk the stage tonight. You're gonna have so much fun.
Hi everyone, welcome to the Four-O-Eight! We're at that time of the year again. Our freshmen will become sophomores, our sophomores Juniors, Our Juniors Seniors and our Seniors will begin their own personal journeys. Here at The Four-O-Eight we're all excited about all this and I know that we, at LAHSA are ready for all of these changes because that's who we are, that is the spirit that guides us in this school.
This month's episode has to do with how we adjust to changes and how those changes impact the core of who we are. You will hear a story about two young people's love for one another and how the difficulties of that love has shaped who they are. You will also hear a conversation between a boy and a girl and about some of the misconceptions that are attributed to their gender. And finally you will hear a story about a former student of ours and about what it was like for her to make her journey to a university that is far from home.
Our first story is brought to you by Shania Maestrado. She talks to two young women about the hardships they have faced because of their sexual orientation.
In our next story, producer Heaven Muñoz explores the roles that society says we have to fulfill as men and women.
And finally, we have Anahi Rios who talks to Tabina Mahtab about what it was like to go to a university that is far from her family.
All of us at The Four-O-Eight thank you for listening. We exist because you still listen to us!
Our program today was produced by Heaven Muñoz, Anahi Rios, and Yrah Rayos Del Sol. Our creative directors for this episode are Bryant Hernandez, Reyna Morales, and Jezryl De Roxas. Our production managers for this episode are Selma Ramos, Vanessa Reyes, and Shania Maestrado. Our marketing team is rocking our school with all kinds of cool posters and flyers and its members are Sally Melchor, Jesse Luna, Carlos Garcia and Allison Ambrosio. I'm executive producer, Andres Reconco. Please follow us on Instagram @The Four–O-Eight and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. Thank you for listening. Tune in next month for our final episode of Season 3 of "The Four-O-Eight".
To have hope means to believe that there are grounds for believing that something good may happen. It's like fuel to us. It's hope. It keeps us going, keeps us striving for what might be different, what might be better. We all know stories of people who have lost hope, who have given up whatever journey they're taking because the guiding light they once had has extinguished. Today's episode is about what hope looks like to different people and how they manage to hold on to this sometimes elusive thing.
The first story you will hear is about two teenagers, two high school students, who have found hope in a most unusual place.
Then, you'll hear a story about what happens when we make a mistake with long lasting serious consequences. What if the consequences of those mistakes impact the life of someone else? Where can we find solace? Where do we find hope? Producer Yrah Rayos Del Sol has a story about Art and how Art has the potential to heal.
After that story you will hear one that is partly about the horrible ways in which we sometimes treat children, about the scars we leave behind. It's also about the resilience of the human spirit. Anahi Rios has that story for us.
The next story is about Diana, a junior at our school, an athlete and a scholar. She's intelligent and resilient. Like many of our students, Diana has been dealt a challenging life, one that she's navigated wisely so far. She lives with her mom, a woman who has been both a mother and a father. Her relationship with her father has always been tricky, complicated by resentment and broken promises. It is a story that demonstrates the hope and resiliency of a daughter that understands the adult world and all its self-constructed illusions.
Our final story comes from producer Heaven Muñoz. In it she interviews someone trapped inside drug addiction, someone who sees hope as something negative, something dangerous.
All of us as The Four-O-Eight thank you for listening. We exist because you still listen to us!
Our program today was produced by Heaven Muñoz, Anahi Rios, Yrah Rayos Del Sol, and Tanya Mendoza. Our creative directors for this episode are Bryant Hernandez, Reyna Morales, Jezryl De Roxas, and Jose Olvera. Our production managers for this episode are Selma Ramos, Vanessa Reyes, and Louie Uy. Our marketing team is rocking our school with all kinds of cool posters and flyers and its members are Sally Melchor, Jesse Luna, Carlos Garcia and Allison Ambrosio. I'm executive producer, Andres Reconco. Please follow us on Instagram @The Four–O-Eight and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. Thank you for listening. Tune in next month for another episode of "The Four-O-Eight".
Season 3, episode 1 is live.
Today, June 9, 2017, is the end of the 2016-2017 school year. In a couple of hours the space in front of The Cocoanut Grove will be full of excited families carrying balloons, flowers, cameras and, sometimes, celebratory signs that they plan to display during the ceremony. They'll of course be disappointed because they can't carry the balloons or signs into the theater. The students, those wearing their cap and gowns, will all be assembled inside the dance room. That's where they line up; that's where they say their first goodbyes. That's where some of the first tears erupt, sometimes that's even where old broken relationships get mended. After that they'll march into The Cocoanut Grove theater where friends and families await them with smiles and tears and flowers. It's all over so quickly, too.
This episode of the Four-O-Eight marks the end as well. It marks the end of season 2. Clap a little for us. It's a big deal. We have a couple of serious followers, students who stop me on a regular basis to ask when the new episode will air. It's exciting when that happens. I hope this last episode stays in your consciousness for a long time, just like the graduating class of 2017 will stay in mine.
In today's episode you will hear six stories. Each one is individually produced, recorded, and edited by the individual telling the story. This episode was not a group project.
The first story you will hear comes from Anabell Cho. In it she explores the power of social media and the impact it's had on her life.
Our next story comes from Annicka Tiu. Annicka explores what it means to be family, what it means to be affectionate and what it means to understand.
As our seniors graduate and some find themselves moving to other states to continue their education they find themselves saying goodbye to old friends and to boyfriends and girlfriends. In our third story, Franky Morales explores what his move to Oregon will mean for his relationship with his girlfriend.
I've heard people say that High School isn't high school if there's no drama. When some adults say this we say it laughing because in retrospect the drama that happens in high school looks very small from a distance. Some of us have forgotten the trauma of those dramas. Keiry Molina is no alien to drama and in our fourth story she explores the damage it caused and the lessons she learned.
Our fifth story comes from Elizabeth Rosa and, in it, she talks about her relationship with her brother and the way in which he indirectly carved a path she would be asked to follow, a path she didn't necessarily see as hers.
Our final story comes from Jason Sims. In it, he discusses what it's like to have a dream be deferred by a physical injury.
That's it for us this season. We'll be taking a break until September when the new staff of The Four-O-Eight begins their school year. Thank you for staying with us, for listening, for giving us your attention and your patience. We would be purposeless without you.
My name is Andres Reconco and I am the executive producer of The Four O Eight. Until next time.
I think it's pretty common knowledge that some of the most important lessons we learn are lessons that difficult experiences teach us. Some of those experiences could be avoided, I guess, if we listened to our parents or to our friends or to the experiences of strangers. Others, however, just can't be avoided and we're forced into that turbulence and we either emerge from it wiser and stronger or we get stuck inside that chaos. That's what today's episode is about. Today we look back at that turbulence and we explore how some people got out and what they learned and how they've grown.
In our first story, producer Lupe Espinoza talks to Joey, a senior at our school, about the death of his uncle and about the power of music.
Our second story comes from producer Elizabeth Rosa. She interviews Angelica and together they explore what it takes to find courage and conviction.
Our third story is about Yami, a senior at our school, and about the lessons she learned after her first encounter with death.
Our final story by our producer Tabina Mahtab is one of redemption, it's about finding a new purpose, a new role in life after being in the grips of gang life.
Thanks for listening. Our program today was produced by Lupe Espinoza, Elizabeth Rosa, Franky Morales, and Tabina Mahtab. Our creative directors for this episode are Anabell Cho, Ha Bin Lee, Karla Baires, and Brec Hipolito. Our production managers and marketing directors are Luz Cruz, Jonathan Sims, Jason Sims, and Se Mi Han. I'm executive producer, Andres Reconco. Please follow us on Twitter and Instagram @The Four–O-Eight and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. Thank you for listening. Tune in next month for our final episode of this 2nd season of "The Four-O-Eight".
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In this episode we explore the topic of loss. What's it like to lose something or someone you love? How do we cope with that loss? What do we do to try to fill the void left by what was once there?
Executive producer Andrés Reconco talks to a student we'll call K.T. (for privacy reasons). K.T. shares why he joined to club POPS (Pain Of the Prison System) and what type of impact being surrounded by the energies of prison has had on his life.
If you're interested in finding more about POPs the club please visit their website @www.popstheclub.com.
Annicka, one of our production managers and marketing directors talks to her grandmother who recently lost her husband of 57 years. She reflects on what that loss was like as well as how she managed the pain of that loss.
Parenthood isn't on the minds of many sixteen year olds. But, what are the consequences when something happens at that age that limits the possibility of having kids as an adult? David Calvo explores this situation by talking to our very own Dr. Isabel Morales.
In this next segment Producer Chris Castro and Creative Director Whitney Gonzalez explore the value of lessons and memories left behind by those who have passed away. They will talk to a student who lost a teacher and who was left with something very valuable.
In our final story Consuelo Hernandez explores the inevitability of loss and how one person coped and learned how to survive.
In this episode we're looking at "expectations", particularly expectations people have of us or we have of ourselves, and how it doesn't matter whether or not we meet those expectations because at the end, they've shaped the people we've become.
Andres Reconco talks to three LAHSA 9th graders and they reveal the expectations they had of high school and whether or not they have changed in the past three months of school.
Chris Castro talks to Luz, a Guatemalan woman who talks about her experience with stereotypes and their ability to mask the unexpected. Being exposed to stereotypes, she argues, can shape us into more open minded individuals.
Yaahjairi Blas is a model. She's gotten a taste of the industry and all of the responsibilities and challenges that come with the job. Consuelo Hernandez talks to her about her experience and about whether or not Yaahjairi's ideas about beauty have been changed by her experience in the modeling industry.
Esther Yang and her team take a look at how beauty standards rob people of their identity and how these standards can sometimes scar individuals and change them, at times for the worst and at other times for the better.
In this final segment Yorgy Flores tackles gender identity and the societal expectations that are attached to being a boy or a girl. Kelly Hernandez explains what it's been like to not fit into the restrictive mold society has shaped for girls.


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HomeNewsFather charged with murder in 2020 death of 6-week-old son, documents show
Father charged with murder in 2020 death of 6-week-old son, documents show
PASADENA, Texas – Nearly two years after a 6-week-old boy died, his father is being held responsible for his death, according to court documents.
Xavier Darren Whitaker, 20, is accused of murdering his newborn son, Xavier Whitaker Jr.
According to court documents, on Nov. 11, 2020, an ambulance was called to a Pasadena apartment complex after receiving reports about an unresponsive infant.
When paramedics arrived, the newborn was rushed to HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast Hospital, then airlifted to Texas Children's Hospital.
In the initial report, the father told Pasadena police that he was feeding his baby when he noticed that the newborn appeared to not want to eat. The dad said he burped his son and then went to place him in the bathtub, and that is when the baby became unresponsive.
Xavier Jr. remained in critical condition for more than a week, before dying on Nov. 20. An autopsy was conducted two days later.
Court documents do not give an explanation for the lengthy gap between the death of the child and the follow-up questioning of the parents.
Documents show the mother was questioned on June 16, 2021. According to the affidavit, she told investigators she and Whitaker lived together and would take shifts caring for their son. She said that Whitaker mostly cared for the baby during the daytime hours, and she was asleep when the child allegedly sustained the fatal injuries.
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The first-generation Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUV is undergoing a second recall for problems with its power steering.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says the loose power-steering cooling hose on 102,954 Mercedes M-Class SUVs from model years 1998 to 2003 could result in diminished power steering and, ultimately, damage to the power steering pump. The safety agency warns that the problem "could result in a loss of control and a crash without warning."
The news agency also said that it's uncertain if any accidents or injuries can be blamed on the problem. What is immediate is the panic drivers could feel if their vehicles lose power steering due to a defective clamp used to secure a cooling hose for the system.
The recall, which is expected to begin in October, is a follow-up to a similar recall issued for the M-Class SUVs which may not have completely addressed the problem. But in order to be covered by the recall, drivers must get their vehicles in to a dealer before November 15.--Colin Mathews
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Artists of Traditional China
Meet the artists of Traditional China, A Cultural Celebration
Lai Ma Gates was born in Shenyang, China into a family of musicians. At the age of five she started learning the pipa, also known as the "Pear-Shaped Lute" or the Chinese Guitar, with her father, and later, piano and composition. After graduating from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Lai Ma became the performer, pianist, arranger, and composer for The Premier Song and Dance Troupe of Beijing. In 1992, she won "Hei Long Bei" National Composition Competition in China.
In 1996 she joined The Phoenix Chinese Art Ensemble as concert master and pipa soloist. Their group performed at the Phoenix Chinese Cultural Center during Chinese Week, New Year celebration and the Asian Festival. She also visited Valley schools to introduce Chinese culture, music history, and the Pipa as an instrument.
In April of 2006 she was invited to perform as soloist with the New Moon Orchestra of Pittsburgh at Carnegie Hall. In 2007, she had the opportunity to have her own concert for "World Music" in Phoenix. Recently, she joined the Pangean Orchestra as soloist and will perform in concert at Phoenix Symphony Hall.
Besides her Pipa talents, Lai is a very active pianist in the Valley. She was the on the first piano teacher team for "The Well-Prepared Pianist Institute" concert held January 2003 in Tempe. Later she performed with the same team at the ASMTA Conference Concert held in June at Salt Lake City. In August of the same year she performed with her friends in the "Sentimento Piano Trio" in Chandler. The concert consisted of a rendition of Beethoven in E flat Major, Debussy in G major and Shostakovich Piano trio No.1. In May 2008, Lai and her sister Li along with ASU jazz musicians played an exciting piece called "Bolling's Suite" for cello and jazz piano trio, a beautiful combination of classical and jazz.
Lai is currently finishing her studies at ASU and will receive her Masters in Music Composition this spring.
Sabina Fu is a professional musician who grew up in Hong Kong. Her instrument is the guzheng, or Chinese zither, an ancient stringed instrument that dates back 2500 years. She began taking classes under several renowned teachers while still a child. Sabina Fu obtains diplomas of guzheng performance issued by Central Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Shenzhen Art School. She performs flawlessly on the guzheng, bringing to life beautiful melodies with their never-ending charms.
In 1990, Sabina joined the Chuen Ying Guzheng Ensemble as a performer and also a guzheng soloist. She began teaching the guzheng in 1993. In over twenty years, she has taught many students. She puts great emphasis on their basic training and makes every effort to obtain for them invitational education with a view toward developing their artistic talents.
Sabina's students have won many awards for excellent achievement in graded tests and in music competitions. To encourage her students to reach for higher goals and to reinforce their self-confidence, she is a proponent of teacher-student recitals.
Sabina came to the United States in 2008, where she continues to promote her rich Chinese artistic and cultural heritage through traditional guzheng music. She currently performs with Phoenix Chinese Ensemble.
Zhigang Chen is an orchestra teacher with Tempe Elementary School District. He is originally from Sichuan province, China. As a graduate student, he finished his studies at East Carolina University, Temple University, and Arizona State University. He plays the cello, hulusi, and other Chinese instruments. He is the founder of the Arizona Sichuan and Chongqing Association, a director of Phoenix and Chengdu Sister City Committee, and a director of International Culture and Arts of USA.
The hulusi, or cucurbit flute, is a free reed wind instrument. It is held vertically and has three bamboo pipes which pass through a gourd wind chest. The center pipe has finger holes and the outer two are typically drone pipes, producing a very pure, very mellow clarinet-like sound. Advanced configurations have keyed finger holes similar to a clarinet or oboe, which can greatly extend the range of the hulusi to several octaves.
The hulusi was originally used primarily in Yunnan province by a number of ethnic-minority groups and has gained nationwide popularity throughout China; similar to the popularity of the harmonica in the West.
Youliang Zhou was born in Hebei, China into a family of teachers. He started playing Chinese bamboo flute at very early age and later he started learning Erhu or Chinese Violin, and later the Jinghu, the smallest and highest pitched member of the Huqin family of bowed string instruments, and the traditional accompaniment of the Beijing Opera.
After graduating from the China Conservatory of Music, he became the Erhu soloist and concert master for the China Meikuang Song and Dance Ensemble. In 1982, the Ensemble visited and performed in many cities in the USA and Canada. In 1984, he became the director of the Ensemble. In 1989, he emigrated to the USA, and after getting MIS and MBA degrees from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, he moved to Phoenix and started working as a software engineer until retiring in 2016.
In 1995, he joined the Phoenix Chinese Art Ensemble. Every year, the group performs on many occasions. In 2005, he was invited to play with the Phoenix Symphony, and in 2009, he performed with Chandler Symphony.


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Guests are welcome to enjoy the extensive gardens of the Limestone Hills homestead and to swim in our pool (summer only), and if they wish, can have a guided tour of our truffière, vineyard and olive grove. Visitors in the autumn/winter truffle season will be able to join a truffle hunt, or purchase fresh white, black or Burgundy truffles.
The master bedroom has a double bed, and the second bedroom can be configured with one or two single beds. The cottage has a fully-equipped kitchen and there's a bathroom with separate toilet.
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Published August 3, 2018 at 10:56 AM PDT
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Law enforcement officials across Nevada this month will be cracking down on drivers and pedestrians who flout traffic laws.
The Nevada Department of Public Safety says agencies across the state will carry out an enforcement operation focused on pedestrian safety starting Monday.
The agency says 26 pedestrians in Clark County and three in Washoe County died in the first half of the year.
Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Jason Buratczuk says pedestrian safety is a two-way street.
Officials are urging pedestrians to only use intersections and marked mid-block crosswalks and to continue to look for oncoming traffic until reaching the other side of the road.
They are also reminding drivers to follow speed limits and to check for and yield to pedestrians at intersections or mid-block crosswalks.
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Q: How can I delete the rownames which contain specific text in R? I would like to remove the rownames ONLY of the rows which contain "Apple_"
df <- data.frame('fruit'=c("Apple_1", "Apple_2", "Apple_3", "Pear_1", "Pear_2", "Pear_3"),
                'color'=c("Red", "Red", "Green","Green","Green","Green"))
df<- column_to_rownames(df, var="fruit")

None of these work because I belive there aren't any rows called just "Apple"
row.names.remove <- c("Apple")
df[!(row.names(df) %in% row.names.remove), ]
df2<- length(which(grepl("Apple", rownames(df))))

df3<- df[row.names(df) != "Apple", , drop = FALSE]

A: We can use grep with -
df[-grep('Apple', row.names(df)),, drop = FALSE]

Or invert = TRUE
df[grep('Apple', row.names(df), invert = TRUE),, drop = FALSE]

With data.frame, the rownames and column names attributes cannot be empty.  An option is to convert it to numeric index
i1 <- grep('Apple', row.names(df))
row.names(df)[i1] <- seq_along(i1)

Or convert to a matrix and then change those row names to blank ("")
m1 <- as.matrix(df)
row.names(m1)[i1] <- ""

as matrix allows duplicated rownames while data.frame doesn't.  It  is also possible to completely remove the rowname attribute, but it has to be across the whole object

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Santa Monica College Student Filmmakers Receive Professional Recognition:
Santa Monica College has announced that two student film-production projects have won Awards of Merit at the Best Shorts Competition.
The Award of Merit is given to works that qualify as "notable artistic and technical productions," according to the competition's website.
"I'll Take Care of You," a short film directed by Morgan Peterson and produced by Gintare Urbutyte, received an Award of Merit in the Women Filmmakers category.
"Falling Like Fools," directed by Carla Dauden and produced by Ronja Jansz, received an Award of Merit in the Music Video category.
"I am incredibly proud of SMC's filmmakers and their projects, which show a high level of craft and, consistent with our college's mission, truly have something to say about the world we live in," said Salvador Carrasco, head of SMC's Film Production Program. "In winning recognition from the Best Shorts Competition, our students join the ranks of other high-profile professionals who have been honored with this internationally respected award."
The Best Shorts Competition, headquartered in La Jolla, CA, is an international film competition that strives to give positive exposure to talented directors, producers, actors, and members of the creative teams who produce high-quality short films, webisodes, mashups, and new and experimental media.
Entries must be 57 minutes or less in length, and are judged by respected professionals in the film industry.
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February 12, 2019 Aleksis Valens Uncategorized One comment
I cover the why star trek technology appears more primitive. I think it would be appearances only.
The situation story wise in STD
Klingon /Federation war is devastating the federation. The technological edge is non-existent and the cloak is given an unholy edge to the Klingons
So what would have caused the reversion if Star Trek was real life?
As outlined in part one, reliable technology is what is necessary. That could be easier to produce and save energy drainage.
Well for the evolution from Enterprise to STD to TOS you would need something logically in line with IRL history. It would also have to explain what PROVED to StarFleet and the Federation something like the Pentagon Papers and the Millennium challenge 2002 was going on.
You are going to need a commanding officer, a ship, and a story the present political climate allows. And History, bless her soul, has answers for what happened..
You are going to need a miracle that has happened in history..
The Federation was losing Badly.. So lets go there Star Trek Fans!
Throughout human history there has been a series of officers that fit the bill.. You are going to need them..
George S. Patton – wikipedia
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
I am going to keep it simple
Facets we borrow
Raised in a rich family
not liked by other officers or command
competent -highly
master planner
heavy on training
So this is easy, most of you should know Patton. Now we go to the next officer I had in mind.
Pappy Boyington- wikipedia
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (December 4, 1912 – January 11, 1988) was an American combat pilot who was a United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II. He received both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross.
VMA-214 wikipedia
In August 1943, a group of twenty-seven young men under the leadership of Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (who was later awarded the Medal of Honor) were joined together to form the original "Blacksheep" of VMF-214. Major Boyington had just returned from a year's tour in China as a member of the 1st American Volunteer Group (nicknamed the Flying Tigers), and had been credited with multiple kills of Japanese aircraft.[1] The squadron was not assigned any aircraft or ancillary personnel at first and flew to Guadalcanal and later the Russell Islands in borrowed planes that were in less than satisfactory condition.[2]
Keep the blacksheep in mind for a little bit later
maverick – not liked by officers or command
ran blackmarket operations to keep planes running
ran blacksheep by force
Now we have some basic psychological points for an officer to be produced
(blacksheep point keep in mind)
Now we need a ship.. And again History provides a glaring example. I will stick to one..
the USS Sh@$%y Kitty
USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63)
The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was both the first and last active ship of her class, and the last oil-fired aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy.
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But the Kitty Hawk also has another nickname: "Shitty Kitty," a term of endearment among many of her former sailors due to the aging vessel's frequent breakdowns. In Richard Miller's "A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War," a Navy vet turned photojournalist laid out the carrier's many problems: "This boat's old. Old pipes, too many coats of paint, too many welds and re-welds. She's been around too long. Lots of sailors don't like her. She's a pain in the ass to clean and too damned expensive to run."
She is a lady with a dark past.. It hit me that this is the name you want.. The crew wears the name with Pride.. The USS SHITTY KITTY to the rescue.. LOL
Now we get to the gravy of how and why the reliable more primitive looking systems are in place. You need a hard lesson set on the back drop of klingon war
With the basic psych profile like info mentioned earlier
we combine Patton and Boyington
not liked by his superiors
is not what they consider star fleet
wealthy family
a throwback in essence
Now you might think that wont fly.. Well we twist a little on the origin
Captain Boyington (the name you go with for historical associations)
is a first generation Federation child
from a matriarchal society of humans
his mother is from the old families and very wealthy
powerful position-like ruler of the government
she decided to raise him by herself instead of sending him to the males
no clue who his father is (not important in the society only whose your mama)
he only got into the best schools because of Federation diversity requirements
and a problem child his mother loves dearly
We have a child that is an outsider in his society. Joined star fleet so he would have a chance.. His childhood made him and he barely graduated because he realised nothing had changed since his childhood..
I think both sides would by this for the captain.. The ship is in mothballs, Shitty Kitty..
The next important part would be the crew
Frustrated at starfleets incompetence.. Watching all the garbage, he steals a page out of human history.. And makes his own Blacksheep squadron
But he does what he is comfortable with
Surrounds himself with women! All female crew..
Oh laugh but history does have an example, straight out of the Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu and the Lesson of the Concubines
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general in the period of the Warring States around 400 BC. At that time across China, local warlords constantly waged war against one another to fight for their shares of the remnants of the collapsed Chou Empire. I remember the story about Sun Tzu being challenged by a warlord to apply his famous war doctrine to train 180 women from the warlord's palace into an orderly company. Among the women, two were the warlord's favourite concubines. Sun Tzu divided the women into two groups and put a concubine in command of each.
The King of Wu asked, "Can the test be applied to women?" Sun Tzu replied that it could, so arrangements were made to bring 180 beautiful women from the palace. Sun Tzu divided them into two companies with one of the King's favorite concubines at the head of each. He then made all of them take spears in their hands and spoke to them: "I presume you know the difference between front and back, right hand, and left hand?"
The women replied, "Yes."
Sun Tzu continued, "When to the sound of drums I order 'eyes front,' look straight ahead. When I order 'left turn,' face toward your left hand. When I order 'right turn,' face toward your right hand. When I order 'about turn,' face around to the back."
So history does say it can be done. I think this captain would choose all women. Due to the environment he grew up in..
So where does he recruit .. From prostitutes, Pleasure girls, thieves, and old battle axes.. And using the magic of discipline, real not PC.. We have another element.
(not to mention the fact when the klingons find out is an all female crew)
You could even toss in a reference to kirk.. No he does NOT sleep with members of his crew.. He had to verbally correct a young officer after rescue mission.. Told him the only woman and mistress in his life, as a Ship Captain, is your SHIP..
I know.. I know.. I said I would have to explain what would be required for the tech to be primitive looking.
Well like the blacksheep squadron, they begged, borrowed, and stole.. Starfleet would not supply them and most likely could NOT..
The older systems would be easier to go with.. And a lot more reliable and field tested.. So instead of power draining touch screens.. Switches with a lot more analog feel.. Easy to replicate excetra.
Again I also reference the comments in the tweets I made
8/..
You will need to do some slight additions
A ship with more reliable and tougher technology
think military contracted motorola phone
me and friend tried to destroy one of those old phones
hammer smashing
shooting it
running it over
we caused a small crack
— Legate Freedom (@Chrononaut2018) February 11, 2019
The Sh#$ty Kitty would have a little bit more staying power. Most everyone reading this knows this to be true.. How.. You have a cell phone.. The newer ones.. The older ones cant run half the programs.. and battery drainage. Now put that concept on starship.
Holographic communications system cost how much? Touch Screens?
versus switches that are yes/ no arranged old school
that power can be diverted to ?? Shields.. Structural integrity.. phasers.. engines..
Take the same principle to the torpedoes.. less fancy guidance systems.. more umph..
All it would take IRL would be for that first mission to succeed.
The Kitty Hawk shows up in the middle of a battle.. Does not aide the escape pods, refuses orders from acting fleet commander, and goes toe to toe with say three klingon ships.. While the fleet retreats the Shi#$% Kitty retreats after the fleet gets away..
She is ugly and old, but shes a fighter.. Reliable
Maybe add in when this introduced if it is used, Admiral Marcus was his academy Advisor.. (if you can get the same actor.. Do it!!)
So that is what would be the how what caused the tech to be used
Old tech reliable tech easily COTS succeeds where Pentagon Wars/ Millennium Contest 2002 tech is put up for independent re-evaluation. Not a devolution but a look to reliable tech with multiple backups
And all the switches were the interfaces that require less power.
With the captain psych style for believability, ship with a history, and a crew with skills all fitting with in the acceptable storylines narrative..
And the ship captains would want the field tested reliability.. Especially for exploration purposes.. with supplies FAR away.. Keep in mind it is just the looks of primative..
(also keep in mind why the explanation given in the show and article fails.. One system fails.. It is stripped out.. and not hooked back up.. And yes starfleet would be tracing the physical interfaces and cutting them out.. And then the functional interfaces of the system.. Worst case scenario.. After day one, Two or three days later system is GONE with a different standby..)
You have the components to as to why based on some historical flavoring.. The older tech would be upgraded to TOS state for reliability.. And keep in mind it does not mean loss of use of functionality or power for physical controls.. Just sturdier with less wasted power..
I am not going over the whole history of the mirror universe as it applies to this.. suffice it to say the Discovery would not be suffering from the same failings the rest of the fleet did.. The mirror universes issue is with maintenance because of the political structure on the vessels.. So reliable tech and battle readiness is a key theme in the mirror universe, with failure getting the agony booth or death.
Mirror universe- Memory Beta wiki
The mirror universe is a parallel universe where the patterns of events move in similar manners to that of the primary universe, but the intentions and characterizations are different, often showing "evil" characteristics in place of "good," and vice versa. Starfleet Intelligence, by 2267, referred to this reality as "Terran Empire parallel." The mirror universe shares a similar history to that of the primary universe, and many of the same people exist in this reality, but they and the galaxy they live in are skewed versions of their "normal" counterparts. (Star Trek Adventures module: Core Rulebook)
Now to keep it realistic at the end.. Captain Boyington is retired post war.. He comes into conflict with to many officers.. Historically accurate..
That is how you explain the older looking tech!
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