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The Naked Landscape
June 2, 2020 / George Anelay / 0 Comments
Writing on water for the last blog post has got me onto thinking about the landscape more generally. A good way to get your head around how a particular locality might have been lived in over the centuries is to strip out all the works of mankind and start again with a blank canvas. The bare bones of a landscape are essentially the topography (i.e. the hills, valleys, plains etc.), the water (springs, streams, rivers) and the geology (what is beneath the ground). Everything above that, particularly in an intensively inhabited place like England, is going to be either created or planted by people.
I find the easiest way to do that is to get hold of an Ordnance Survey Explorer 1:25,000 map (the common walking map) which has the contour lines marked on it, and then just trace over the contours (you can do this digitally or manually). That will give you the topography. You can then also trace over the springs, streams and rivers, which will give you the water. For the geology, we are blessed with the British Geological Survey, whose website contains a "Geology Viewer" which plots all the different geologies in the UK, and you can again just trace them off as appropriate (http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbritain/home.html?)
When you have finished doing this you will end up with something like this:
Topographic map of Harting parish (outlined in red), showing the contours, water (the blue stars are springs) and geology (boundaries marked in purple)
This exercise presents you with a picture of what the first settlers would have encountered, when they turned up, in terms of the "base layers". Obviously the vegetation above is not so easily demonstrated, since we simply do not have enough data to be certain of what it looked like. The traditional view was that the whole lot was covered by trees, before man came and cut them all down, but voices have been raised to question this, and it is not impossible that the landscape was in fact rather more varied, with potentially quite large open spaces grazed by herds of animals.
Returning to the three elements of our base map, we will start with geology. Harting, like many of the Sussex parishes, has a wonderfully mixed collection of geologies, with the chalk Downs in the south, sloping steeply down to the shelf of Upper Greensand upon which the villages of West, South and East Harting sit, which in turn dips down to the Gault Clay, with Nyewood upon it, and finally the Lower Greensand, through which the River Rother meanders.
Each of these geologies has its own characteristics, but the main interest for us is those that effect what people do. The chalk is well-drained, with generally thin, easy to cultivate soils. The Upper Greensand is moderately well-drained (there is a varying clay content) and the soils are more fertile. The Gault clay is generally pretty horrible, being too wet in winter and too dry in summer, because of its poor drainage. The Lower Greensand is well-drained, and of middling fertility.
A glimpse at the Google Earth aerial photos will give you a pretty good idea of how farmers now use these different soils, so you will see mainly pasture over the highest Chalk slopes and over the Gault Clay, and then mainly arable over the Upper Greensand and lower southern chalk slopes. The Lower Greensand is slightly more mixed, with some arable and some pasture. While we have to make some allowance for improved methods of ploughing and more effective fertilisers, modern use is not a bad guide to past use, and it seems likely that back in the day cultivation followed roughly the same pattern. The one exception seems to have been that the thin chalk soils on the upper slopes of the Downs were more heavily used for cultivation, probably because they were easier to plough, but we will return to that in a later blog.
It is striking also to note that the vast majority of settlement seems to have squeezed onto the Upper Greensand shelf, probably because the Downs had no water, the Lower Greensand was too low lying and, frankly, no-one wanted to live on the Gault Clay (sorry residents of Nyewood). Again, this may have been different in the case of the chalk in the further past, as we will discuss in that later blog.
Water we have looked at a bit already, but the map above shows that within the eastern half of the parish, as well as the west, and so you can see the fate of the "east stream", as it leaves West Harting Manor at the base of South Gardens and makes its way north-eastwards to exit the parish on Dumpford Lane. There is a third stream right up against the parish's eastern boundary, starting close to the bend in the Elsted road, flowing through Sheepwash Copse and exiting into Elsted parish shortly afterwards. Because of its relatively short length within Harting, it does not have the same significance as the other two streams, which were both heavily exploited, as was that short stretch of the Rother that forms the north-western boundary of the parish. As has been stated, once you hit the Downs, water disappears, and any settlement upon them has to make use of deep wells, seasonal ponds, or simply hard grind in lugging water up the hill.
The final element, the topography, is the most striking. Essentially the parish runs down in a series of steps to the Rother from the north scarp of the Downs, but then slopes down more gradually from the same scarp to the south, over the back of the Downs.
Two key factors are immediately apparent, the first being transport. Put simply, how do you get from one end of the parish to the other, particularly over the Downs. Here the contours can really help in predicting where people might, in the past, have done this. The lowest point over the Downs in Harting parish, for example, is clearly where the current Compton road runs, although the valley it uses does fork as it approaches the scarp from the south, with one arm running down to South Harting, and the other running round the west of Hemner Hill. But I will be looking at roads in another later blog.
The other key factor which the topography throws up is settlement. We have already seen the position of most of the current villages, sitting as they do upon the Upper Greensand shelf. Outside of this, settlement is limited, and there has to be a good reason for it existing elsewhere. For example Nyewood has its origins as a railway hamlet, but you will see that even then, that it sits upon a spur of higher land sticking out into the Rother valley, or in the case of the houses at Durford Mill, they are obviously there because of the mill.
I am sure you can draw many more conclusions from studying this base map youselves – some of which I hope to look at in the future. Do feel free to make comments/suggestions, or, if you wish, requests for the subject matter of later blogs.
May 22, 2020 / George Anelay / 0 Comments
Water is obviously a key resource at any point in history, and this blog will focus upon its influence upon the history of Harting. Water obviously matters in terms of domestic consumption, for drinking, washing, cooking etc., but it also was the prime source of power, particularly until the advent of electricity. For water powered mills, and then later iron furnaces.
That part of Harting south of the Downs was pretty much water free, and so here the only solution was either to import it, catch it from the rain, or dig down for it in very deep wells. This is one reason why settlement was pretty sparse in these areas. But north of the Downs there was a fairly plentiful supply, and in particular from two streams that flowed from the base of the chalk. One of these streams flowed through West Harting Manor, and the other largely through East Harting Manor, although the latter also began in the west.
The two streams as traced from the 1632 map of West Harting Manor. The eastern stream can be seen starting within the deer park (outlined in yellow) but soon flows into East Harting Manor and is lost to our 1632 map
The eastern stream starts within the deer park attached to the Manor House of West Harting, just to the south-west of the modern village of South Harting. Its source is a spring running out of a little combe just to the west of The Warren, the water now flowing via a small pond down into South Gardens just below the lowest of the existing ponds there. However the 1632 map shows the spring being immediately dammed into two larger ponds, separated by a path, which then flow down to a building at the end of the now missing fourth pond of South Gardens. It is this building that is likely to be a mill, and probably a mill whose predecessors date back to Saxon times. In the Domesday Book, the reference to Harting includes a grand total of 9 mills, of which this was almost certainly one. The current ponds in South Gardens, also probably spring fed from the highest pond, may well have developed slightly later as fish ponds – the watery equivalent to the living larder provided by the deer park. After leaving South Gardens, the stream crosses the Chichester road and thus enters into East Harting manor, and out of the range of our 1632 map. Its lower course will be discussed in a later blog.
The origins of the East Harting manor stream, showing the spring-fed ponds feeding the mill (the upper shapes shaded green) and the later fish ponds of South Gardens (the three lower green shapes).
The West Harting manor stream originates from a spring near Ditcham, again at the foot of the Downs. It flows under the Petersfield Road (B2146) and through what is now Torberry Farm. From there to the River Rother, where it ends, it has an eventful journey, being dammed at least four times for various purposes.
Nowadays the highest dam is that at Hurst Farm, where a mill still exists, although no longer in use. This mill does not appear on the 1632 map, but is there by the date of the 1st Ordnance Survey edition of 1808. Further down stream there was an earlier mill, confusingly called "New Mill" which ironically now no longer exists. It used to lie in Goose Green, in angle between the road to Ryefields and that to Manor Farm, with the mill building located at the eastern end of a small rectangular pond, and several other buildings forming a small hamlet to the west.
New Mill at Goose Green. North is to the right. The mill is the rather faded building at the right hand end of the pond, with two more structures above, presumably one being the miller's house.
Further downstream again we find what is now called "Harting Pond", a much larger body of water. There is no sign of a building on the 1632 map in the vicinity of the pond's dam, and no writing to indicate what its original purpose was. The most likely explanation is that it was the site of another of Harting's nine medieval mills, but without further evidence this remains uncertain.
Harting Pond, lying next to the West Harting to Durford road. It is a much larger pond than either that of Hurst Mill or New Mill, but its function is not given on this 1632 map
We are on firmer ground with the next pond, although this time, conversely, no pond survives, but a name does. For on the 1632 map the words "Furnace Pond" are written over the area between channels of the West Harting stream, just as it exits the modern parish and enters Rogate, to the north-west of Nyewood. As the name suggests, this was not the site of a mill, but rather of an iron furnace, or more properly an iron hammer. The buildings of the hammer probably lay at the far eastern edge of the pond, inside the parish of Rogate, with the water backing up all the way to Parlour Copse or even Down Park Farm. Iron hammers tend to work in partnership with iron furnaces, with the latter extracting the ore from the rock and the former hammering it to produce a more marketable iron product. The pair for this hammer lay to the north in what is still called Harting Combe, although it lies now in Rogate parish, for here the site lay over the Weald clay, in which the ore can be found, whereas the hammer is over the Gault Clay, which does not contain ore.
The site of "Furnace Pond" to the north-west of Nyewood, on the border of the modern parish. By the date of this 1632 map the furnace has ceased working
The hammer and furnace were in operation from about 1588-1608, a relatively short period, perhaps suggesting that they were not very profitable, certainly compared to the many others that lay further into the Weald to the east. If you want to see the site of a furnace that lasted much longer and survives much better, then North Park Furnace at Fernhurst is the place to go (they have an annual Open Day in September which is well worth a visit ( http://www.fernhurstfurnace.co.uk).
Shortly after the hammer, the West Harting stream empties into the Rother, just to the west of Habin bridge, by Mizzards. And so also ends this blog ,except to observe once again that water meant power in centuries past, and a power that you could just keep on exploiting, building more and more dams to control and use its flow to power mills and furnaces. And the power was not just in the water, for whoever owned the water could make significant sums of money as a result of selling the produce of those mills and furnaces.
Harting in 1632
The 1632 Caryll map offers us a fascinating snapshot into life in Harting at this time, or at least to half of Harting, since by this date the old manor of Harting had been split into two – West and East. The term "manor" can be a bit confusing, so it is worth just saying a few words about it. Nowadays we tend to talk of the "manor" as being a building, but actually originally it was an area of land held by one authority, who may well have lived in the "manor house", i.e. the principal house within the area of the manor. Back in the medieval period the "manor" of Harting was the possession of the Hussey family, but when the male descendants of that family ceased in the late 15th century, the manor got split between two daughters and their husbands, and then descendants, so that by 1568 it had become divided into two halves, West Harting and East Harting, with the dividing line running pretty much north-south along the line of the Nyewood – South Harting – Uppark roads. West Harting had become the possession of the Sir John Caryll who had the 1632 map of his lands drawn up, while East Harting was owned by Sir William Ford, whose wife was actually another Caryll.
West Harting manor included all of what we now refer to as West Harting village, together with the western half of South Harting village, which was rather uncomfortably split down the centre of the High Street between the two manors. When you compare the number and spread of houses shown on the 1632 map with those existing today, what is most striking is the shrinking of West Harting, for there was a significantly larger number of houses four hundred years ago, than there are now. But actually, apart from that, there is surprisingly little change in settlement and landscape. The bulk of the population growth in Harting has actually been in the eastern manor, with the village of Nyewood appearing in the 19th century and the growth of eastern half of South Harting in the 20th century.
The two manors of Harting, with buildings shown on the 1632 map as red dots – South Harting is in the centre, and West Harting is the very dispersed spread of buildings in the northern half of the manor
I will return to look at West Harting in a later blog, but for the moment we will stick to the main course, which is the central village of South Harting. This was the location of the manor house itself, which lay just to the west of the current church, on the site of what is now Church Farm. It was, in its time, a very impressive set of buildings, with a large crenellated gatehouse facing onto the High Street. Not only did it have a large private garden, of which South Gardens still retains the name, but it was also set within its own private deer park, which extended westwards to the slopes of Hemner Hill, southwards to the summit of the Downs and northwards to the current Petersfield Road
The Manor House of West Harting, with its "South Garden", containing four ponds (the northern of these is now empty of water)
As you can see the Manor House was part of a large complex of buildings, which I may discuss in more detail in a later blog, but the main building is the tallest shown, to the west of the church, with the gatehouse, almost equally big, situated to the north of the church. Between the church and the Manor House lies a walled garden, which now forms part of the churchyard, still enclosed within the same wall. The building lying at the south-west corner of the largest pond (the northern one) may well have been a mill, powered by the water held back in the upper three ponds. This building does not survive
The Manor House of West Harting, with its deer park to the west (outlined in yellow)
The deer park was not a large one by contemporary standards, but would have been well stocked with deer, probably numbering in the hundreds. Its purpose was to act as a living larder for the benefit of its owners, and also as a source of gifts to those they wanted to favour. By the date of our map, such parks were losing their original function, and being turned over to agriculture – hence the subdivisions into fields, which would not have existed a century or so before. The park as a whole was surrounded by a fence, known as the "pale", to keep the deer in, and this fence is still marked on the map, even though the park has ceased to be a proper deer park.
In the next blog we will look at another aspect of the 1632 map.
Maps: Part II
May 5, 2020 / George Anelay / 0 Comments
In the last post we looked at how the historic maps of the Ordnance Survey can be used to see what your house, village or town looked like in times past. However, these only take you back to the early 1800's, and then not in great detail, or the 1870's, if you want to be able to pick out an individual house. But there are maps that will take you back further, and in some cases a lot further.
The first port of call on our journey back in time are the Tithe maps, produced in the mid-19th century in order to facilitate the calculation of the new monetary tithes that landowners were required to pay, as opposed to the old payments in kind (agricultural produce). These maps cover the majority of the country by parish and are at a much more detailed scale than the one inch Ordnance Survey. Back in the day when they were made, three copies were produced of each map, one went to what was essentially central government (now held in the National Archives), one to the Diocese and one to the parish. It is these latter that are now the most easily accessible, since the majority ended up in Local Authority Record Offices. For South Harting the local Record Office is that for West Sussex in Chichester, and the Tithe map can either be viewed there, or purchased from them on CD. At some stage it is to be hoped that they will appear online.
For some places the Ordnance Survey maps and the Tithe are going to be your only historic maps, but for others a whole new world of mapping can open up, from enclosure maps (as the name suggests drawn up to map the enclosure of common land) to private estate maps and other more random examples. These can be held anywhere, including in private collections, but the most accessible ones are held in public archives, such as the National Archives, the British Library or local record offices. All of these have searchable catalogues of what they hold, so it is fairly easy to find out what maps they might have for your area.
In the case of Harting there are more the ten maps pre-dating the Tithe, but the best of all is one held by the British Library (No. Add MS 20089 A). As you might imagine, the further back in time you go, the fewer maps there are, with only a comparatively small number pre-dating the 18th century. But the British Library's Harting map is one of these, and dates back nearly 400 years, to 1632.
Extract from a map of Harting, dated 1632, showing the village of South Harting
(British Library No. Add MS 20089 A)
Often these older maps are very colourful and tend to include all sorts of extra decoration and details. They also commonly show the buildings in a sort of 3D, rather than from a bird's eye view, as modern maps do. The titles that go with them are also often rather long and elaborate, as it is with this map, which reads: "An exact & perfect description & general plan of the manor of West Harting in the county of Sussex wherein are set forth & delivered all the houses, gardens, tenements, cottages, woods & underwoods, wastes, commons, warrens, sheep downs & lands situated, lying & being within the tithing of West Harting belonging to Sir John Carill knight now lord of the same manor" and then it carries on quite a bit longer.
Sadly of all the maps discussed above, and in my previous post, only the Ordnance Survey ones are available to view online, which is not terribly helpful in the present circumstances, when we just cannot get to record offices and other archives. It is to be hoped that some day all these old maps will be scanned and make their way onto the web for all to see.
Maps: Part I
During this time of lockdown I am sure many of us are developing new hobbies and interests, or perhaps finally getting going with one that has been on the back-burner for years. For a lot of people this might be researching the family history, something which is getting both increasingly popular and achievable, with all the on-line resources that are around. But another line of enquiry into the past is to research the history of where we live – our house, village or town. This can be a bit harder, since most people don't really know where to start and there is no one-stop-shop like Ancestry.com. So the purpose of these first WSA Blogs is to give those who want to have a go, a few pointers in how to go about it.
The best place to start is with maps. The UK is peculiarly blessed with its maps. We have to thank the Scots and the French for our most comprehensive set of maps, for if it had not been for their audacity in posing a threat to the rule of the Georges, we may well have never had the Ordnance Survey. In order to make it easier for us to locate and lock up rebellious Scots and to defend our coast from the Corsican tyrant, maps were drawn up that would eventually cover the whole nation.
The first of these were the old one inch maps produced in the first half of the 19th century, and these can now be viewed on-line at: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/ Once you are on the site, the easiest way to get to the right place is to enter the name of your village, town etc. into the search bar at the top. This can require a bit of lateral thinking, because the search engine does not always recognise every place. For example, entering "South Harting" will take you, for some reason, to South Korea, which is interesting, but perhaps slightly irrelevant. Once you have finished looking at maps of South Korea in the 19th century, you will probably want to have another go. The secret to get to the right place, is to try entering the name of somewhere else nearby, maybe slightly more internationally famous that South Harting, and see if that does the trick. So in my case "Midhurst" is the answer. This will then give you a long list of maps on the right hand side of the screen, but most of these can be viewed better elsewhere, and we are really after the early 19th century one inch maps, so the next thing to do is to press the clock icon at the top and slide the bar from today to pre-1850. This then narrows the list, and at the top should appear the one we want, in this case entitled "Midhurst 8". If you click on that, you will then be able to make your way to the map itself (it is worth clicking on the "view as overlay" option). You will see the resolution is not the best, but it is as good as it gets at this scale.
South Harting in 1808 from the one inch Ordnance Survey map by Charles Budgen
In the later 19th century the Ordnance Survey started producing what is known as the "County Series" maps, which were much more detailed. These can be viewed at: https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/. Once again, enter the place name that you are interested in (or the postcode) and up will pop all the maps from the 1st edition (normally from the 1870s) onwards. The search engine for this is rather more effective, so it will usually handle small hamlets and villages.
South Harting on the 1898 2nd edition 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map
These two websites will enable you to access pretty much all that the Ordnance Survey has to offer in terms of maps. In the next post I will go further back in time and look at some of the older maps and where they can be found.
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After that date, its pages will be closed permanently. Please see the December 17, 2021 Diary for more information.
An Inflationary Boom Is Coming
Bill Bonner | Mar 24, 2021 | Bill Bonner's Diary | 5 min readPrint
YOUGHAL, IRELAND – The Germans have marvelous words for things. Katastrophenhausse, for example. Even without knowing the language, you know you're not going to like it.
Yesterday, colleague Tom Dyson reported seeing a glimpse of it coming:
The bond market expects the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to increase by 2.5% per year for the next five years, judging by the difference in yields between the 5-year Treasury and the 5-year inflation-protected Treasury (TIPS). That's a 12-year high.
Tom quotes The Wall Street Journal for further detail:
Prices are surging for the raw materials used to build American homes.
Lumber, one of the biggest costs in home-building after land and labor, has never been more expensive and is more than twice the typical price for this time of year. Crude oil, a starting point for paint, drain pipe, roof shingles and flooring, has shot up more than 80% since October. Copper, which carries water and electricity throughout houses, costs about a third more than it did in the autumn.
Prices for granite, insulation, concrete blocks and common brick have all pushed to records in 2021… Drywall and ceramic tiles are short of records but have also climbed.
Crack-Up Boom
You can inflate a tire. You can inflate a balloon. Or you can inflate the money supply… and an economy.
It's this last form of inflation that leads to Katastrophenhausse.
It loosens the moorings of a society… so that it is soon floating high above the ground… in a kind of miracle fog, where everything seems possible – even replacing real jobs and real earnings with fake money…
And then it crashes.
It was Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises who called it a "Katastrophenhausse," usually translated as a "crack-up boom." As you can see, there are two parts to it – the boom… and then the crack-up.
Lottery winners often go through a similar phenomenon. First, they get a lot of money. Then, they lose their wives, their jobs, their friends… and finally, their money, too.
So did the Japanese enjoy a catastrophic triumph when they bombed Pearl Harbor. They celebrated for six months. Then, the Battle of Midway marked the beginning of the "Katastrophen" phase.
Four years later, Yokohama, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and dozens of other cities were smoking ruins… with 3 million dead, including about 600,000 civilians.
Catastrophic Decision
And now, with the printing presses running night and day, Americans feel like young boys whose school has just burned down. They are enjoying a truant's delight, a vacation from real life… a brief interlude leavened by counterfeiting.
Last year, the American government – federal and state – made one of the most catastrophic decisions in history, causing mass panic and destroying millions of jobs and small businesses.
Then, by printing trillions of new money, it gave the impression that no real harm had been done by the lockdowns… and that the economy can be rescued by printing even more money.
According to a recent Bloomberg report – mentioned yesterday – the Biden Bunch is planning to go "Full Katastrophenhausse," spending another $3 trillion it doesn't have, in addition to the $1.9 trillion it didn't have.
Investors are watching… either warily or greedily.
On the one hand, older investors are fearful that rising bond yields (up more than 200% since last August) and "inflation" sightings (currently at their highest level in 12 years) will force the Federal Reserve to react with more normal, tighter money policies.
On the other hand, younger players think there is nothing to worry about. Most of them weren't even born when the last serious bout of inflation occurred in the 1970s.
They believe either that inflation is never a problem… or that it is a good thing; it drives up stock prices. (More about that tomorrow…)
Catastrophic Prediction
Here at the Diary, however, we think they are both wrong.
In our view, inflation is a problem, and the Fed will not be able to control it. We've already gone too far, stayed too long… And now, we can't get back. Like the Japanese fleet, we wait to be sunk.
And here is our prediction. Please cut this out… and put it on your refrigerator. Refer back to it… if it proves prescient. If not, kindly toss it in the waste can…
The first stage of the coming Katastrophenhausse is most likely the "inflation scare."
Scottish economist Russell Napier says that inflation has become not just cyclical but structural. It no longer rises with a growing economy (more demand), but as a matter of government policy.
He sees a U.S. inflation rate of 4% by some time next year. That will be enough to set off alarms.
The Fed will make a limp gesture toward "normalizing" interest rates and slowing its asset purchases.
Then, stocks and bonds will crash, as investors' fear puts an end to the Bubble Epoch.
This will all happen very quickly. Investors will anticipate Fed action… the Fed will react timidly, hesitantly… Market prices will fall…
There will be weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. People will fear deflation/depression/defunding and deleveraging…
And then, all Hell will break loose.
It will then become obvious that either the nation endures the Katastrophe it has coming… or the feds make it worse by once again printing up more fake money to try to stall it.
We know how that will turn out…
The politicians will be out in force, promising to "protect hardworking families."
Treasury secretary Janet Yellen will tell Congress it needs to act immediately, "or we may not have an economy on Monday."
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell will pledge to do "whatever it takes" to keep the jig up.
But none of it – neither the BS words nor the BS money – will stop the crack-up.
The Last Hurrah
It's No Surprise That The Fed Is Rolling Over
Inflation on the Loose and a New Venture
Why the Fed Can't Raise Interest Rates
Inflation Is Always Bad News for a Democratic Government


Welcome to my last show - this has been a real ride!! You will still be able to download the shows from www.LynnWaldrop.com! This week I am going to give you a preview of a 20 year project finally coming to fruition that I call "The Body Channel". It has been called "medical intuitive on steroids" and a "comprehensive scan, repair and report". When I work with a person I DIVE into each of the systems of the body and the body starts this very fast download of all the places where there is discord. Then your body begins to show me what to do to change it, and when we are complete we discuss what you experienced as well as what I did. I have worked on people with all kinds of discord: lymphatic, digestive problems including polyps in the colon, diabetes, kidney failure, abcesses, pain, foot numbness, scar tissue, inflammation, toxicity, neuropathy, blood clots, insomnia and even just general clean up items such as plaque in arteries, general detox, yeast and fungus! Listen in!!


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VOICE VERSA: A lifetime of poetry
by Martin A. David
Voice Versa is a powerful collection of more than 200 poems by Martin A. David, ranging from 1959 to 2019. The topics cover a wide scope of human experiences, emotions, and observations.
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It is a kaleidoscopic flood of language, thoughts and visions; a writer's journey from youth to maturity, from the gritty streets of New York, to Mexico, Europe and beyond. Simple visions of nature blend with painful images from a child's memories of the holocaust. Love poems stand shyly besides flippant and sarcastic poems about breaking up. Again and again we hear our own pain and our own sweet experiences spoken in the poet's voice, but in words that few of us could conjure up.
Martin A. David is a child of the Beat Generation whose literary horizons were permanently altered by the publication of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" in 1956. David's New York origins echo through the book. In fact, even the title Voice Versa has a deliberate New York joke to it—with voice being the stereotypical New York pronunciation of 'verse' and verse being the New York accent's word for 'voice'.
"Prose that reads like poetry and poems at once dreamlike and eye-opening, the writing of Martin A. David is a joy and a treasure."
- Lewis Segal, former staff Dance Critic, Los Angeles Times.
Shtetl In My Mind by Martin A. David
Stories that resound across all emotions and across all cultures.
Karpstein Was Hiding - Second Edition by Martin A. David
Dreams, visions and reality dance together in a hidden world.
Martin A. David is the very definition of the overused, but seldom earned moniker "Renaissance Man." His history includes work as Journalist, educator, painter (he sold his first piece while still a teen), poet, dancer, choreographer, artist, editor, novelist, craftsman, jewelry designer, software engineer, cowboy, house painter, migrant worker, and factory worker.


Recently I'm becoming more and more convinced of the wisdom behind squatting. No, I'm not referring to the tactic used by the underprivileged where they occupy a piece of land or property, refusing to move until their demands are met. I'm talking about the more primitive form, referring to position when going to the bathroom.
I kept procrastinating on writing about this topic until I was reminded of it with this article from Slate. You see, I've never regularly practiced squatting (I only used the flat toilets during long road trips here in Saudi) as I was raised using the standard toilet and so my body simply grew incapable of comfortably squatting. However, a while back the toilets stopped working in my office and I was forced to resort to the Eastern-toilets. And I must admit that everything stated in the Slate article is correct. Without getting too graphic, let's just say that everything simply 'flowed'.
The Wikipedia page on flat toilets lists a few of the health benefits. In addition to it being physiologically healthier, these toilets are environmentally safer. They don't require an obscene amount of water to flush with the more traditional toilets letting natural decomposition do most of the work (see: Humanure).
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I find myself sitting in the hospital's expansive lobby outside their waiting room, looking upon little Sarah recklessly stumbling around the open area. At first I'm amusing myself by watching Sarah amuse herself. Quite a boisterous character that little 2-yr old, I think to myself.
Just a few weeks ago, an elderly Pakistani lady, unable to resist temptations to squeeze her, snatched Sarah up as my wife was walking in the mall. She continued to kiss her chubby cheeks until her twenty-something son, embarrassed by his mother's antics, pleaded for her to stop. And when my wife jokingly mentioned that she must have been attracted to our daughter due to Sarah's Pakistani roots, the lady became even more overcome with joy and pasted her with several more smooches.
Ah yes, the joys of rearing irresistible Sarah.
Then my mind wanders back to the hospital. How long until they call Ibrahim's name? What should I do? I should have brought a book along. Do I need to call anyone? Oh wait, why not open the Quran and recite a few verses.
But the Shaytan immediately springs into action. Or is it my nafs? Sadly, I'm never able to tell the two apart.
What an insincere act, I think to myself. After having exhausted all other options, only then you turn to the Quran.
It's actually more insulting to the Creator of the Quran to recite His words in such a disgraceful manner than to not read them at all. The Divine Words are not meant to be a last resort, an afterthought, option C or D.
How pathetic that you haven't opened the Quran all week and only now that you're bored, you're turning to these eternal words?
Don't you dare offend your Lord by opening His book in such a wretched manner, I continue trying to convince myself. Better for you to go home, set aside the proper time, find the proper place, create the proper frame of mind, and recite the Holy Book with khushoo' (sincerity and awe).
Flustered by my confusing deliberations, I turn my attention back to Sarah as I discover her climbing all over the sofa. What an easy life to be so carefree. Not a concern in the world. No worldly worries, no fiscal responsibilities, no internal struggles, no epic battles against the self.
And that's when it hits me. My cunning, despicable self has duped me once again.
I stop abruptly and repeat this verse several times over.
Ya Allah! What an incredible verse!
These most sublime words from *MY* Lord to *ME* resonate so deeply into my soul, carrying such a promising message of hope and love that I immediately commit them to memory.
Bursting with such…happiness. What a soothing contrast to the oh-so-serious message often heard over masjid loudspeakers.
Let us be happy and giddy at the thought of our Lord's favor and mercy.
Let us be full of exuberance and excitement.
Let us emanate cheer and bliss as we inhale Allah's benevolence.
Let us joyfully exclaim and gleefully whisper the bounties of our Creator.
And while the verse specifically is commanding our beloved Prophet (saw) to say this to his followers, we are indirectly being commanded ourselves to spread these words of euphoria and jubilation.
Fal-Yafrahu (فَلْيَفْرَحُوا) – then let them celebrate, be happy, rejoice.
What a kind and comforting thing for our Lord to say to us feeble humans. Through all the harm we humans create, sustain, endure, inflict, and suffer, we are offered these compassionate words.
That His Grace and Mercy is so overpowering, so overwhelming, so awe-inspiring that the damage we humans combine to wreak - on ourselves, on our fellow humans, on our fellow creations, on our Earth, all of it - pales in comparison. So much so, that not only are we to patiently persevere or quietly suffer or uncomplainingly tolerate the difficulties of life, but we ought to, above all else, celebrate and rejoice and honor His infinite Grace and Mercy.
I'm left in sheer amazement as Sarah jolts me back to reality with a loud jovial scream as she frolics around the hospital lobby. On second thought, she and her toddler brethren don't have it as good as those of us able to taste the sweet, eternal joys of the Quran.


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More details and recommendations to come. However, you may want to take a peak at the extensive lists of wineries and restaurants now.


In the My Samantha photo essay.
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The Palestinian Authority announces the cessation of security coordination with Israel - Thursday 26th January 2023 08:58 PM
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Urgent, serious warnings from the Saudi Meteorology .. Heavy rain for a whole week in these areas
Trends Aamal Trend Monday 23rd January 2023 05:16 AM REPORT
After forecasting the meteorologists at the end of last week that this week will witness heavy thunderstorms, yesterday the meteorologists made a full report predicting the places that will witness rain from tomorrow, Sunday, January 22, until next Thursday, and this report also includes the amount of rain that will fall and what will accompany it.
Thunderstorms from Sunday to Thursday
Urgent, a new two-day vacation in Saudi Arabia that will start soon on this important occasion
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The Saudi meteorology expects rain in several different regions in the Kingdom, starting from tomorrow evening, Sunday, until next Thursday, corresponding to January 26.
The meteorological report was divided into two parts, where in the first part, rain falls from Sunday to Thursday, in those regions (Riyadh-Sharqia-Jazan-Makkah Al-Mukarramah-Al-Baha-Asir-Qassim-Hail).
As for the second part of the report, it was raining from Monday to Thursday in those areas (Madinah-Makkah-Al-Mukarramah-Northern Borders).
The reports indicated that the rains are moderate in general, and may reach torrential rain in some areas and at some times.
Urgent, a new collapse today in the exchange rates of the Saudi riyal against the Egyptian pound. The exchange rate of the dollar in Egypt today
Urgent, good news for all those in the Sultanate of Oman.. An important event for the first time in the history of the Sultanate
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Saudi weather today
The maximum temperature is 22°, the minimum temperature is 9°, and the temperature is expected to rise by 2° tomorrow.
There is no chance of rain today, and the chance will increase from tomorrow until the end of the week, and the chance of rain will reach its maximum on next Wednesday, January 25.
The humidity is 62%, the wind is weak, 5 km / h.
The sky is partly cloudy and will continue in this situation until next Monday evening, allowing the sky to be completely cloudy until the end of Thursday.
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Is there rain in Saudi Arabia?
Conditions today are stable and the rate of precipitation is 0%. Rain is expected to start from tomorrow evening (Sunday).
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How is the weather in Mecca today?
The maximum temperature is 31°, the minimum temperature is 19°.
Humidity is high 79%.
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The chance of rain is 10%.
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Earlier this summer, fifty-five teams competed at this year's Brave New Voices festival, hosted by Philadelphia.
Brave New Voices (BNV) is an international poetry slam, and the competition is centred around young people, their potential, and their abilities.
It was the first poetry slam I ever attended, even though I've been fascinated with poetry for the past five years. And, it was so much fun. If I felt like I could handle the commitment in addition to all of my other responsibilities, I would be far more willing to form a team on my own.
I watched two different slams on Friday, July 18th, with four of my best friends. Unfortunately, members of the audience weren't permitted to take photos or videos of the performances. (Sorry about that.) Luckily, though, you can watch BNV's coverage of the event here.
This year's teams were from North America and Bermuda. Each slam was composed of five teams.
The first slam I attended was from 12:30 to 14:30 at a venue named Underground Arts. I honestly forget where the second slam was held, but it lasted from 15:00 to 17:00.
You can visit Underground Arts's website here.
The two slams I watched featured teams from San Francisco, Chapel Hill, Bermuda, Richmond, Toronto, and Flint. There were four other teams, but I can't recall where they were from.
It's a matter of subject.
Some people, including a couple of my friends, described the subject matter of the poetry as dark or depressing. I would rather describe the poems as genuine, realistic, or straightforward. Sure, the poems sorted through difficult concepts, but I really appreciated how directly and honestly they were written. They exposed the true emotions and dangers of each topic that was introduced.
Speaking of which, it was emotional. Really emotional. A lot of competitors took more time to recite their poetry because of how hard it was to do. They would cry or turn away from the audience because of how challenging it was to finish performing a particularly personal piece.
Other topics that the poems focused on include mental illness, sexuality and LGBT issues, self-harm, divorce, death of a loved one, bullying, self-acceptance, and feminism.
Not all poems were dismal. A lot were very funny, with extremely hilarious content that earned the performers a standing ovation (whoops and cheers and applause included).
The coordinator of the first slam frequently expressed his mantra of "F*ck censorship" in between poems (especially following a performance that used a lot of swear words). He would say it into the microphone and then the teammates and audience members would echo it to him. This man also ended the slam by spontaneously performing a spoken word poem about his father, which was a special treat for us.
Not to mention, this man is the same one who forced every team and audience member to participate in a "30-second dance party" about halfway through the slam. It was fun.
Before each slam, a person who wasn't affiliated with any of the teams recited a poem that was to be used throughout the slam as a "standard" for the judges to use against each teammate's poem. In the second slam, the poem was about the performer's Mexican heritage and his childhood in Arizona.
If somebody performed a difficult poem that left him or her crying and breathless, typically his or her teammates would greet him or her at the side of the stage, have a big and tearful group hug, and then return together to their seats.
As each slam progressed I could definitely sense how close-knit each team truly was. These people were families. They cared for and supported one another, and taught each other the value of one another.
The best part is the way that teams support other teams, too. The Toronto team was a prime example: before almost every poet, they would holler, "Let's go [performer's city's name], let's go!" and then they would clap or stomp three times. Before long, the other teams would begin to do this of their own accord, without having to join in with Toronto first.
Another of my favourite aspects of BNV was the "poetry terminology" that these competitors used. It was a dialect of its own -- kind of like a jargon. For instance, when a performer approached the stage, members of the audience (as well as poets who were and were not a teammate of the performer) would give encouragement. My favourite one was when these people would call out to the performer, "Don't be nice!" to tell him or her to show emotion (anger, despair, frustration) and to be as brutally honest as possible.
My experience with BNV was unforgettable. Next time the festival is hosted close to home, I'll try to attend.
Visit Brave New Voice's website here.
Visit Youth Speaks's website here.


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The ECI-Viacom set took over The Lodge for three days in the Viacom building in NYC.
The two MTV Dance troups (East & West Coast) dance together for the first time.
The Electronic Cafe International Showcase @ VIACOM was a pilot Interactive TV event that took place in New York City, Santa Monica, CA, London, England, Miami, Florida, Castro Valley, CA, and Nickelodeon Studios, Orlando, Fla. Each location was connected via ISDN (for audio) and T1 (for video), enabling live events to be conducted simultaneously in multiple locations.
People entering rooms in one city are able to schmooze with live, life-size images of people in the other cities.
Jazz pianists Michal Cain (in New York), and James Carney (Santa Monica), perform together. Each played an electronic keyboard locally which sent MIDI information to the other location which activated a Yamaha Disklavier acoustic midi controlled piano in the other city .The musicians appeared together on the same screen in both locations.
Howard Rheingold, author of Virtual Reality.
Composite Image Space performance choreographed entirely over the PictureTel video-conferencing system by Dawn Stoppiello and Mark Coniglio in Santa Monica and Illan in New York. Final performance performed live in Virtual Space via the CLI Compressed Motion Video System connected between New York and Santa Monica by a T-1 line. Performance included MIDI for MidiDancer music, Disklavier, and stage lighting controls. On screen in both NY & LA, Dawn (LA), Illan (NY) appear to be dancing in the same space. The Midi Dancer suit worn by Dawn in LA controls the music in NY. Music composition and programming, Mark Coniglio.
3000 miles apart, Dawn Stoppielo and Ilaan Egeland perform together.
Graham Nash in LA plays with violinist Todd Reynolds in NY. They meet for first time in composite image space and play together on one of Graham's new songs. Audio for Nash and all vocal musicians is processed through a ATP Audio Codec using three ISDN lines for CD quality sound.
Todd Reynolds and Graham Nash duet in cyberspace.
The MTV Dancers from New York and Santa Monica danced together for the first time via T1 (see sidebar).
From NY, Bob Holman performing a poem rap about ECI with Merilene M. Murphy in Santa Monica. They appeared together live on screen in both NY & LA.
Performance of his wireless One-man Band, synthesizer/sequencer, voice. Dolby moves freely throughout the cafe while transmitting CD quality audio and T1 quality video. There is a short video of this segment which was posted to the info-mac archive in 1993.


The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived–not through the abolition of place, but as a theme by which place is mediated. Life lived here is experienced in its profound and often unsettling connections with life lived elsewhere, and everywhere. The local gains dignity, and significance, insofar as it can be seen as a part of a worldwide phenomenon.
I tend to write about the issues that concern me most: the destruction of natural habitats, ecosystems and species extinction in (Southern) Africa, and global warming in general.
Of course, the endangered species (rhino, elephant, vultures and hundreds of others) are unique to the continent. But perhaps the major difference is that in the northern hemisphere, the damage being done is driven mostly by greed, and in Africa it is driven mostly by poverty.
Blood of the Safari: A harrowing novel from an expert storyteller whose wickedly fast narratives reveal the heart of his enthralling country. In Blood Safari, Emma Le Roux, a beautiful young woman in Cape Town, sees her brother named on the television news as the prime suspect in the killing of four poachers and a witch doctor. But it can't be possible: Emma's brother is supposed to be dead, having disappeared twenty years ago in Kruger National Park. Emma tries to find out more but is attacked and barely escapes. So she hires Lemmer, a personal security expert, and sets out into the country in search of the truth.
Its [Gyps africanus] global population has been estimated at 270,000 individuals. Consistent with other vulture species, it has declined by over 90% in West Africa, and it has largely disappeared from Ghana apart from Mole National Park.
The species has also declined in Sudan and South Sudan, Somalia and Kenya, but is apparently more stable in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and across southern Africa where an estimated 40,000 individuals remain.
Trackers: In Trackers, Meyer expertly weaves together Lemmer's story with a missing person investigation and the machinations of a top intelligence agency. Wielding a phenomenal cast of characters, Meyer delves deep into the people, the breathtaking landscapes, and the politics and problems of this fascinating country. A #1 best-seller in South Africa, Trackers is an insightful novel that will take your breath away.
In Trackers, Lemmer rides shotgun on a truck transporting two of these – the black rhino.
When Deon does research for a book, he often travels to the actual settings, and takes lots of photographs. We've posted them here – just scroll down – to give you a glimpse of the world of the novel.
Fever: "He's just really good, and Stephen King agrees, comparing Fever to his own novel The Stand." –Post Magazine. In Fever, a coming-of-age story, the narrator Nico tells the story of his father, Willem Storm, who died in the Year of the Lion. His father had built an oasis away from the rest of the world suffering from a deadly virus resulting from genetically modified foods. This post-apocalyptic tale rivals others, such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, when looking at the future of humanity and how people would react knowing that the world might be coming to an end.
It is the vignettes scattered throughout FEVER that make you pause, make you reflect and ponder what it is about us that makes us human, as well as the thinness of the line that separates us from all that is feral, wild and dangerous – both within humanity as well as outside – the inhumanity of our situation. The story of a survivor, who used to own an 'all you can eat buffet' before the fever came, and why he closed it down becomes the novel in microcosm. Deon smiled and told me that the story of the guy who shut down his 'all you can eat buffet' [before the virus hits] despite the success of the restaurant – was based on a true story, that he heard at a dinner party.
Thirteen Hours: Bennie Griessel is the detective on the case of two crimes: two women, 13 hours.
Mr. Meyer, the leading thriller writer in his native country, traffics in crime-novel situations familiar the world over: drunken cops, charming robbers, dangerous murderers, sudden violence—and sometimes, issues of race. Mr. Meyer's South Africa, however, is unique. His books, translated from Afrikaans, are usually set in the Cape Town region, where mountains spectacularly meet the sea on the Horn of Africa. Amid these vistas his detective confronts his own—and his country's—tortured past and the legacy of Apartheid.
Everything is in service of the story and there are certain realities – in the police force, they have people of all ethnicities working together, so just to have black or white cops would not be credible. It's all about verisimilitude. You have to create a world that's believable, that's close enough to the truth to be believed.
Deon Meyer is a South African crime fiction author and screenwriter. His books are translated into 27 languages world-wide.
A former journalist, advertising copywriter, Internet manager and brand strategist, Deon has published thirteen novels and two short story collections. His books have been published in more than 40 countries world-wide, and one (Dead Before Dying) was turned into the international TV series Cape Town.
He has also written two series for television, and four screenplays for feature films, and has produced and directed movies in his native Afrikaans.
Accolades for his books include Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (2003) and Le prix Mystère de la critique (2004) from France, the Deutsche Krimi Preis (2006, 2009), the Swedish Martin Beck Award (2010), the ATKV Prose Prize (2000, 2003, and 2004), the ATKV Suspense Fiction Prize (2008, 2009, 2011, 2014), the M-Net Award for Most Filmic Novel (2009, 2012), and the Barry Award for Best Thriller in the USA (2010).
Deon was born in Paarl in 1958 and matriculated in Klerksdorp in 1976. He studied at the Universities of Northwest, Free State and Stellenbosch, and holds a Masters' Degree in Creative Writing.
He lives in Stellenbosch, and is passionate about South Africa, Mozart, mountain biking, cooking, photography, and Free State Cheetahs and Springbok rugby.
The featured image is of a black rhinoceros at Halali waterhole, by Olga Ernst.


How much is good corporate management worth? A great deal, no doubt, when markets are in upheaval and economic prospects grow cloudier every day; even in sunny times, nobody expects corporate executives to toil for free.
But an odd chain of events at the Emerson Radio Corporation, the $100 million consumer electronics company based in North Bergen, N.J., is giving that company's shareholders a chance to offer their opinion on the question at their annual meeting, which is scheduled for Sept. 24 in New York. Specifically, shareholders are being asked to ratify last year's $5.3 million buyout of the deferred pay claims of five top executives.
If the independent shareholders do endorse the deal, the executives will give $1.6 million back to the company in the form of future salary cuts; if shareholders balk, the executives will repay the money with interest and retrieve their original rights to deferred pay. Given the amount of money the corporate leaders have collected during a year in which both the company's share price and its financial health have deteriorated sharply, the shareholder debate could well be a lively one.
The drama that has led to the pending shareholder vote began last summer, at a meeting of the company's six-member board of directors. It consists of William W. Lane, the chairman, and his brother, Stephen L. Lane, president; Donald Dvorkin, vice chairman and executive vice president; Jay M. Haft, a New York lawyer who is also a paid consultant to the corporation; Walter F. Mondale, former United States Vice President and now a lawyer in private practice; and Lyle Gramley, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Asociation and a former Federal Reserve Board governor.
On July 29, 1989, these directors approved a plan whereby the company's top executives, including the Lane brothers and Mr. Dvorkin, would give up certain deferred compensation rights in exchange for a single lump-sum payment totaling $5.3 million. Also sharing in the buyout plan were Harold Falik, executive vice president for finance, and Kunio Takei, executive vice president for foreign operations. As a result, the Lane brothers each collected $1.27 million; Mr. Falik got just over $1 million; Mr. Dvorkin got $926,200, and Mr. Takei got $814,00.
The plan, the 1990 proxy statement explained, was deemed ''fair and reasonable under the circumstances.'' The board believed that the company's share price, then about $5.50, would soon increase. That would boost the amount of deferred pay each executive could claim upon termination.
Further reflecting their belief that Emerson's stock was a bargain last year, the directors voted to repurchase $4.5 million worth of the company's shares and redeemed certain executive stock options at prices that ranged from $5.50 to $6.63 a share. The redemptions cost another $6.9 million, of which $5.9 million went to the Lanes, Mr. Dvorkin, Mr. Falik and Mr. Takei.
These same executives also got healthy increases in their base salaries and bonuses. In the 1990 fiscal year, which ended March 31, the Lanes each got just over $1 million, up 20 percent over the prior year. After heftier raises, Mr. Dvorkin's base package was $955,769, Mr. Falik's was $942,308 and Mr. Takei's was $835,000.
Unfortunately, the directors were wrong about the company's prospects. Unsold products piled up in warehouses, margins collapsed, and 1990 profits were scarcely ahead of those for 1989. The stock price has fallen to $3 a share, more than 50 percent below last September's level.
As its business worsened, Emerson experienced a sharp decline in its current ratio, a benchmark financial measurement. At the end of fiscal 1989, it had $2.40 in current assets for each dollar of current liabilities; by last March, it had just $1.60. That put the company in default of the terms of a $33 million note issue, which required a current ratio of at least $1.80 to 1.
Mr. Falik, the company's chief financial officer, said the noteholders have waived their right to immediate repayment until Sept. 30, a week after the annual meeting. By then, he said, the company will have either improved its current ratio, or ''we'll negotiate with the noteholders themselves'' to revise the note terms.
Aside from these financial problems, the company and its top executives are still battling with a shareholder group that has filed a lawsuit charging that executives misled investors about the company's prospects in late 1986 and early 1987 and took advantage of the resulting short-lived rally to unload their own shares. The executives have denied the charges. A second shareholder suit filed last fall complains that the company's 1989 proxy statement did not fully disclose the executives' legal troubles before seeking approval of the stock-option redemptions, a charge the company also denies.
In any case, in June, the board's audit committee - Mr. Mondale, Mr. Gramley and Mr. Haft - began to have second thoughts. The committee decided that the deferred-pay buyout should be submitted to shareholders, and met with the affected executives to negotiate the compromise that will be voted on next month. The audit panel also won approval for the creation of a compensation committee to review such issues in the future.
1990 compensation increases for Emerson's highest paid executives. $ *2*Increases Base Salary, With special bonuses payment William W. Lane, 20.4% 161.1% Chairmanam Stephen L. Lane, 20.4% 161.1% President Donald Dvorkin, 25.2% 146.6% Vice Chairman Harold Falik, 47.1% 205.6% Executive V.P. Kunio Takei, 49.1% 194.5% Executive V.P.


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Westminster climbs in national rankings
Created: 11 September 2019
U.S. News recognized Westminster College as one of the best colleges in the U.S. for veterans, as a best college in the West and a best value school for 2020.
Westminster ranked higher than last year in each category. The U.S. News rankings are the latest in many accolades for Westminster. The college was recently named among the top colleges in the nation by the Wall Street Journal and Princeton Review — siting student connections to faculty, well-rounded learning experiences and rigorous academics.
"These recognitions are a reflection of Westminster College's focus on creating deep connections within our community and fostering meaningful relationships that challenge and inspire students to excel in their courses and beyond," said Westminster College President Bethami Dobkin.
12th regional universities West
8th best for veterans
6th best value school
80th top performers on social mobility
Westminster jumped eight points in the regional category, increased four points for best for veterans and one point for best value. The college placed at 80 as top performers in social mobility, which measures how well schools graduate students who receive federal Pell Grants (those typically coming from households whose family incomes are less than $50,000 annually). This is the 25th year Westminster has been recognized in the U.S. News Best Colleges guide.
Best 385 colleges
Best Western college
Green college
Westminster College is one of "The Best 385 Colleges" in the Princeton Review's 2020 edition. Westminster is named a "Best Western" college and a top "Green College" in the guidebook. The Princeton Review surveys 140,00 students at the nation's top colleges, asking them to rate their school on dozens of topics important to them and their parents.
Top third in the U.S.
47th in the West
The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2020 ranked Westminster 239—placing the college in the top third of colleges nationwide and 47th in the Western region. Westminster received high marks in student engagement (how students connect intellectually and socially on campus). The ranking praised Westminster for collaborative learning, student access to professors and rigorous academics that support critical thinking, development of new concepts and connections to the real world.


This is part of a series of icons i designed for the support.xbox.com website. I also designed icons for Microsoft Surface and Band. This was the icon to find help customers find answers to their questions in the forums.


The construction of Crossrail, which will be known as the Elizabeth Line, is now 80% complete. The line is expected to bring an additional 1.5m people within a 45 minute journey time of central London, and serve some 200m passengers per year.
The most recent data, from 2015/16 revealed that 1.34bn people used the London Underground, the highest number in the service's 154 year history, emphasising the need for additional transport infrastructure in the capital. Crossrail trains are expected to be in operation from late 2018, marking the completion of London's largest transport infrastructure project since the Second World War.
Knight Frank has just released a research report analysing property market performance along the Elizabeth Line. The firm's previous Crossrail report, published in 2015, found that house prices along the route had outperformed the wider local markets by an average of 5% since Royal Assent was granted in 2008.
However, analysis of new data by Knight Frank, covering the period up to the end of 2016, shows that average outperformance has risen to 7%. The report stated that 'Crossrail may not be the sole reason for price uplift, and other local factors will also have an influence on house prices, but the overall trend of outperformance is notable. Performance was calculated by analysing house prices within a 10-minute walk of stations in the central section, and within a 15-minute walk of stations in the eastern and western sections.


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Classic Audio Loudspeakers not only provide craftsman standard cabinet designs but the exceptional audio is emotive, intense and evocative. This superlative sound is achieved after John Wolff developed innovative technology based on traditional concepts.
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John recognised that using field coil drivers in his speakers would bring a greater sense of dynamics, speed and emotions to the listener. In the end he achieved his aim, not only by building speakers which incorporated field coil compression drivers, but also designed one using beryllium diaphragms.
The T-1.5 reference is the culmination of over 100 years of horn technology. Horns ruled sound reproduction until the late 1950's. Large amplifiers replaced the need for efficient loudspeakers.
The T-1 system was designed to obtain the finest possible sound without compromise.
This system utilizes a field coil to energize its component; it is the "perfect" magnet. All permanent magnets are inferior energy devices. The component array consists of a 18″ low bass woofer, a 15″ mid-bass woofer, a 2″ throat, 4″ diameter "truextent" Beryllium diaphragm midrange compression driver mounted on a wood "tractrix" horn designed for us exclusively by Dr. Bruce Edgar. And topped off with a beryllium domed super tweeter with extension to 45 khz.
The T-3.4 project follows our T-1 loudspeaker which was introduced in 1998. The T-3 follows the no compromise building quality of the T-1.
The T-3 system was designed to obtain the finest possible sound from this relatively small enclosure.
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For the first time an all wood 300 HTZ radial tractrix horn is employed to optimized our new beryllium fitted compression driver.
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The T7 tower is a new addition to the Classic Audio Loudspeaker lineup to provide a single point source speaker that gives outstanding imaging smaller listening rooms. Designed by Sam Saye, our chief design and application engineer, in 2009, the 8 inch extended range speaker continues the field coil excitation concept and the horn application is now the cabinet. This "little big horn" is a rear loaded 100 Hz quarter wave horn that brings up the lower end to match the output of the speaker above 100 Hz. A special cavity tuned transmission line give additional support below the cutoff of the horn. A smooth roll off allows additional bass down to 20 Hz without overloading the speaker.
The magnificent performance of this front loading corner horn is created by a 15″ low frequency driver coupled to a long exponential horn. Above 800 cps, a 2″ high frequency driver coupled through a unique horn-lens supplies the delicate midrange.
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