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Baraba Tatars
Further information: Tatars and Tartary
Paraba, Barama, бараба, барама
Novosibirsk Oblast
Omsk Oblast
Baraba dialect[1] of Siberian Tatar, Russian
Sunni Islam[1]
The Baraba (Siberian Tatar: параба, бараба, барама) are a sub-group of Siberian Tatars and the bleedin' indigenous people of the feckin' Ob-Irtysh interfluve.[2] After a bleedin' strenuous resistance to Russian conquest and much sufferin' at a bleedin' later period from Kyrgyz and Kalmyk raids, they now live by agriculture — either in separate villages or along with Russians. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Some of them still speak Baraba dialect of Siberian Tatar language. Listen up now to this fierce wan. They traditionally live on the oul' Baraba steppe.
1 Population
Population[edit]
They were first mentioned as a bleedin' separate ethnic group in the oul' Russian Empire Census in 1897 and First All-Union Census of the oul' Soviet Union in 1926, to be sure. Accordin' to 1897 Census their population was 4,433. In 1926 there were 7,528 Baraba Tatars.
Ethnographers estimated that their population reached 8,380 in 1971.[3]
Accordin' to the bleedin' data of the bleedin' Institute of Philology of the bleedin' Siberian Division of the oul' Russian Academy of Sciences, there were 8,000 Baraba Tatars in Novosibirsk Oblast in 2012.[4]
The Baraba Tatars are descended from Kipchak tribes who inhabited the oul' region durin' the 12th and 13th centuries, be the hokey! The region was conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century and was incorporated into the oul' White Horde. Bejaysus. The Baraba Tatars lived in the feckin' eastern portion of the oul' Khanate of Sibir when it was established in the oul' 15th century.[5]
The Dzungar Khanate extracted yasaq (tribute) from their Baraba Muslim underlings. Jasus. Convertin' to Orthodox Christianity and becomin' Russian subjects was a feckin' tactic by the oul' Baraba to find an excuse not to pay yasaq to the oul' Dzungars.[6] Since Muslim Siberian Bukharans had legal advantages and privileges under Russia, Barabas pretended to be them.[7]
Wixman, Ronald. Here's another quare one. The Peoples of the oul' USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook (Armonk: M. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. E. Whisht now and eist liom. Shapre, 1984) p. 22
^ a b Радлов В. C'mere til I tell ya now. В. Из Сибири: Страницы дневника. — М.: Наука, begorrah. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1989.— 749 с. Story? (in Russian), the hoor. Новосибирск: Наука. Right so. p. 6.
^ Селезнёв, А.Г, the shitehawk. (1994). Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Барабинские татары: Истоки этноса и культуры (in Russian), bedad. Новосибирск: Наука. Sure this is it. p. 6.
^ В Новосибирской области осталось два коренных народа. Sufferin' Jaysus. НГС.НОВОСТИ (in Russian). 21 February 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
^ "Baraba Tatars". Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. www.eki.ee. Whisht now and eist liom. The Red Book of the Peoples of the feckin' Russian Empire, the shitehawk. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
^ Frank, Allen J, to be sure. (1 April 2000), the cute hoor. "Varieties of Islamization in Inner Asia The case of the feckin' Baraba Tatars, 1740-1917". Here's a quare one for ye. Cahiers du monde russe. Éditions de l'EHESS: 252–254. doi:10.4000/monderusse.46. Whisht now. ISBN 2-7132-1361-4. ISSN 1777-5388.
^ Frank, Allen J. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. (1 April 2000). "Varieties of Islamization in Inner Asia The case of the bleedin' Baraba Tatars, 1740-1917", would ye swally that? Cahiers du monde russe. Éditions de l'EHESS: 255, 261. Here's a quare one for ye. doi:10.4000/monderusse.46. ISBN 2-7132-1361-4, the cute hoor. ISSN 1777-5388.
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As part of the Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (ADEPIS), Mentor will be managing and further developing the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT), to ensure existing evidence-based and effective preventative programmes reach the mainstream educational settings.
The circumstances of young people in the UK are changing rapidly, in terms of how they spend their time and the choices they make. The transition period between childhood and adulthood has grown, youth engagement in a range of risky behaviours has increased and the education and labour market options faced by young people have changed dramatically.
CAYT started life as a research centre, funded by the Department for Education, comprising researchers from the Institute of Education, NatCen Social Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. CAYT produced new research on topics relating to youth transitions, including around teenage pregnancy, drug use and the drivers of education choices, which can be found on the publications section of the website.
It also set up the CAYT database. The aim of this database is to draw together evidence on 'what works' in terms of policies designed to assist young people in their transitions from education to work, as well as reducing engagement in risky behaviours.
Since April 2015 CAYT has been managed by Mentor, as part of the Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (ADEPIS).
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Nationaal Park Pripysjminskië Bory (Russisch: Национальный парк Припышминские боры) is een nationaal park gelegen in de oblast Sverdlovsk in het zuidwesten van West-Siberië. De oprichting tot nationaal park vond plaats op 20 juni 1993 per decreet (№ 589/1993) van de regering van de Russische Federatie. Het nationaal park heeft een oppervlakte van 493,66 km² verdeeld over twee clusters. Sinds 2011 valt ook het nabijgelegen natuurreservaat Zakaznik Tjoemenski onder het beheer van Nationaal Park Pripysjminskië Bory.

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Nationaal Park Pripysjminskië Bory ligt in het West-Siberisch Laagland en is verdeeld over twee clusters die circa 30 kilometer van elkaar verwijderd zijn. Tussen de twee clusters in bevindt zich de Trans-Siberische spoorlijn. Deelgebied Talitskaja datsja is gelegen op de rechteroever van de rivier Pysjma en ligt vlak onder de stad Talitsa. Deelgebied Toegoelymskaja datsja is gelegen tussen de rivieren Pysjma en Toera.

Beide gebieden bestaan grotendeels uit dennenbossen, waarin ook een belangrijke rol is weggelegd voor planten als kleine veenbes (Vaccinium oxycoccos), blauwe bosbes (Vaccinium myrtillus) en rijsbes (Vaccinium uliginosum). Naast de grove den (Pinus sylvestris) zijn ook de esp (Populus tremula), fijnspar (Picea abies), zachte berk (Betula pendula) en ruwe berk (Betula pubescens) belangrijke bosvormers. Minder vaak worden soorten als Siberische zilverspar (Abies sibirica), witte els (Alnus incana) en Siberische lariks (Larix sibirica) aangetroffen. Deelgebied Toegoelymskaja datja kent daarnaast ook een groot hoogveengebied en een diep zoetwatermeer.

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De fauna in het reservaat is kenmerkend voor het zuiden van de taigagordel. Er zijn 50 soorten zoogdieren, meer dan 140 broedvogels, vijf reptielen, vijf amfibieën en zeventien vissen vastgesteld. Diersoorten die men hier kan aantreffen zijn bijvoorbeeld het eland (Alces alces), Siberisch ree (Capreolus pygargus), meervleermuis (Myotis dasycneme), Siberische grondeekhoorn (Tamias sibiricus), auerhoen (Tetrao urogallus), hazelhoen (Tetrastes bonasia), moerassneeuwhoen (Lagopus lagopus) en Siberische landsalamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii).

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A young woman with breast cancer discovered her mum has the same disease just a week after completing her own treatment.
Amberley Kent, 24, has endured an "awful" past year after undergoing chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy.
But after completing her treatment, she "was quickly brought back to square one" after finding out her mum Cathy also had the disease.
Amberley was diagnosed June last year with invasive ductal breast cancer, also known as 'no special type' because the cells cannot be identified as a specific type.
After receiving intense treatment she was told on March 1 that there was no sign of the disease - but mum Cathy Kent was diagnosed the following week.
Mum-of-three Cathy, 52, found she had invasive lobular carcinoma which is a type of breast cancer that begins in the milk-producing glands.
Amberley, who was aged 23 at the time of her diagnosis, said: "It was horrible, because just as we were celebrating my tests results we were quickly brought back to square one again.
"When my mum got her tests results it was the worst news to hear. Our happiness was short lived.
"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, let alone my mum.
"And I think it is even worse for her because she has seen everything first hand with me, she knows what she is about to go through.
"It just brings you back down to Earth because I know the awful journey she is about to experience."
Amberley said that doctors told her and Cathy it is rare for breast cancer to strike in both of them considering there is no evidence that their cancers are hereditary.
She described it as the "unluck" of the draw as it is "something we all just have to go through."
Amberley, who works in marketing, said she didn't have any major warning signs to make her think she had breast cancer.
But when she was showering she found a lump in her breast, and although she thought it was just tissue, she asked her boyfriend of six months at the time to get a second opinion.
Amberley said: "He said I should just go and get a check up anyway.
"It was hard back then because we were only together for a short amount of time at that point and I didn't want to seem like I had a default."
She said: "It was hard because I was not expecting anything.
"And the doctors kept saying to me it is extremely unlikely because of my age.
Amberley said she eventually had to stop working as she experienced every side effect that is listed for her treatment, including sore mouth, aching body and fatigue.
"I really did try and keep going but some days I couldn't move.
"I didn't want to stop working or anything, I just wanted to keep going but until you go through it, you have no idea what it is going to feel like and how it will bring you down."
Mum Cathy, who looked after her daughter throughout the whole treatment, is now currently on her second treatment of chemotherapy.
Amberley said the past year has been a roller coaster of emotions with a trail of bad luck following them.
Each year more than 2 million women have breast cancer screening in the UK.
The NHS Breast Screening Programme invites all women aged between 50 and 70, who are registered with a GP, for screening every three years.
Women should receive letters from their GPs telling them to attend an X-ray test called a mammogram, in a programme run by Public Health England.
It was recently revealed by Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, that an estimated 450,000 women aged between 68 and 71 were not invited to their final breast screening.
According to Cancer Research UK around 360,000 people have been affected by cancer in the UK with around a 50 per cent survival rate.
They also said around 38 per cent of cases could have been prevented.
Amberley has decided to start raising money for research charity Breast Cancer Now.
She has decided to hold a charity ball on Saturday, June 16 in Holiday Inn West, Thorpe Road, Peterborough.
Tickets are £50 per person and tables of 10 can be booked for £500.
Amberley added: "I want to raise as much money as possible to help women out there. We will find a cause."


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McGill Street Arch
This stone arch is from the former St. Andrew's United Church (built in 1923) on Bloor Street East at Park Road. The City of Toronto purchased the arch when the church was demolished in 1981. The arch was then rebuilt here as a pedestrian gateway, after the intersection of McGill and Yonge Street was closed.
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There nothing else like this anywhere along Yonge Street and it's easy to just walk by without giving it much thought.
Considering how many buildings lately are being torn down and replaced with glass and steel condominiums, the importance of this Arch can only grow with the passage of time.
Once in a while, local civic leaders talk about building a stone replica of this arch directly across the street on the western sidewalk of Yonge Street. If that ever gets done, it would be pretty cool to have TWO arches facing each other suggesting a kind of pedestrian continuity from this side of the street to the other.
Urban Decoder
The following was found in the thread about the McGill Street Arch on UrbanToronto, and goes into much more depth than the original Urban Decoder item in the TorontoLife Daily Dish posting:
I was the Urban Decoder at the time. Took me for freaking ever to research that piece. Eventually I got through to the long-retired minister of the church at Yonge and Bloor from which the arch was salvaged. He was of a very advanced age - late 80s, I think, if not older - and an absolute delight to talk to. Thanks to the wonders of digitization, I still have the interview in my music library (iTunes, no less). Since I could never get details or texture like this into the Decoder, I thought I'd type it up. Here is the end of what he told me:
"When [the church] came down, some bright person from the department of works and buildings at the city felt this archway was an interesting archway. They asked the church if they could have it, and the church said, "certainly, if you wish. Take it away!"
They decided, "we would like to put it at the end of McGill, on Yonge." So we said, "That sounds fine to us. We'll put a bronze plate on it about where it came from." And they said, "Don't put a bronze plate on it down in that neighborhood. It'll be pried off the first night it's there!" The result was, they didn't ever put a mark on it. They talked about it, and in the end, they decided that what they'd like to do - but they never got permission and they never got round to doing it - was to get one of these people who inscribes gravestones. On the inside of the arch, you'll probably notice that there are some flat surfaces. And they'd put that the arch came from St Andrew's Church on Bloor Street and was moved there on the demolition of the church."
"Now there," he added. "I've given you the story."
I seem to also recall getting the explanation that Yonge St. in the mid-70s wasn't as genteel as it is now. Those who were there at the time would be better suited to weigh in on that than me. I was in contact with Heritage Toronto about this story, as well.
What was most remarkable at the time was the fact that *nobody* exactly knew where the arch came from - not the heritage department, not the BIA, not Kyle Rae himself, though they were all helpful. My foggy recollection is that Heritage Toronto had to look it up and get back to me, whereupon I had to go through the church, who found the retired minister. It's amazing how quickly history is lost, if you don't have a brass plaque to hold it in place.
Thread: McGill Street Arch - UrbanToronto.ca, December 20, 2008
McGill Street Arch - torontohistory.org, February, 2012
There's a stone archway on the east side of Yonge, north of Gerrard - The Dish, TorontoLife, June 15, 2007
McGill Street Arch - Waymarking.com
Historicist: Making Yonge Street More of a Fun Street - Torontoist, August 7, 2010
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Ever since upgrading to OS X Yosemite (currently version 10.10.1 (14B25)), I experienced networking issues. Sometimes some ports were closed, meaning that various services did not work as expected (Mail, Evernote, etc). Not only that, ports could sometimes also be inaccessible on my local machine which is tough when you're trying to develop web applications on that machine. And yeah, I truly mean 'sometimes'. Other times it would just work well. The one work-around that I found was to switch the WiFi spot frequently which made ports accessible on remote machines as well as my local one which didn't seem to make any sense.


Even though Edgar and Allan are supposed to have a one-week trip, Allan doesn't want to go out because it is raining on Monday. Edgar tells him to stay home alone for a week and leaves for the trip alone. Allan realizes he can do anything during the week.
On Tuesday, Allan meets a girl called Karen near the stream. She says she is staying in a nearby house with her cousin. When Allan kisses her, she slaps him and runs away crying.
On Wednesday, June sees Allan. Allan asks her to give Karen a bouquet of flowers. On Thursday, Karen and June come to see Allan. They decide to go on a picnic on Friday. Karen says it's unfair that June talks with Allan more than Karen. June encourages Karen to try to speak more. Karen says she met Allan earlier than June and Allan kissed her.
On Friday, Karen and June go on a picnic with beautifully dressed. While they are waiting for June with water, Allan says Karen looks pretty. Karen says he can kiss her. June comes back with a chick. Allan climbs a tree to put it back to the nest and June follows. On the tree, June asks Allan if he likes Karen. Allan says June looks nice, too. They kiss each other. Karen and June are very happy until they know Allan kissed both of them.
On Saturday, June and Karen come with June's horse. When Allan is riding the horse, Karen blows the bugle to surprise the horse. It's their revenge. They are surprised to see Allan laying on the ground without moving. They end up getting to know Allan deceived them.
June: Which do you like better?
Allan: I like both of them.
June: We're going to church tomorrow. What about you?
June: We won't be able to meet until Monday.
Karen: See you on Monday!
On Sunday, Allan waits for Edgar in the house. Edgar doesn't return on Monday. On Monday, Allan worries about Edgar. June and Karen wonders if Allan won't come. June says "He looks like a spirit of the forest. Did he really exist?" "He did!" says Karen. Edgar comes home. He asks Allan if he was lonely. "Yes." says Allan. Edgar says they will leave there for Little Heaven the next day.
Edgar: What have you been doing for a week?
Allan: I did nothing. I got bored.
They leave the house in a carriage the next morning. June and Karen wave to Allan. June says he could be back in the evening.
"Someone is waving." says Edgar. "Really?" says Allan. Even though Allan asks Edgar to drive the carriage, Edgar wouldn't allow him to do so. Allan murmurs, "It might be better to be with girls.". Edgar asks if Allan said something. "Nothing." says Allan.


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Carry On Henry (1971)
May 29, 2015 June 9, 2015 Ian Farrington Carry On	1971, 5/10, Carry On
King Henry VIII actually had two more wives than history has recorded: after taking against garlic-loving Marie, he fell for a young woman called Bettina…
What's it spoofing? The multi-marriage life of Henry VIII, including the way it was presented in the 1969 movie Anne of a Thousand Days. Sid James sports a costume Richard Burton wore in that film (he also had a Burton hand-me-down in Carry On Cleo, of course).
Funniest moment: The king's attempts to see Bettina in the nude.
The Big 10:
* Sid James (14) plays a bawdy and selfish King Henry. At one stage, producer Peter Rogers planned to cast Harry Secombe in the role.
* Kenneth Williams (19) is at the slimy end of his range as Thomas Cromwell.
* Joan Sims (16) plays Queen Marie of Normandy, the first of Henry's previously unknown wives. She's French so – SATIRE ALARM – likes eating garlic.
* Charles Hawtrey (20) plays Sir Roger de Lodgerley, the king's advisor who also acts as his 'taster' – so decides to give Queen Marie a go! He's later tortured for long periods, but doesn't seem to mind too much.
* Kenneth Connor (10) is Lord Hampton of Wick, who plots to get rid of the king (in an anachronistic take on the Gunpowder Plot).
* Peter Butterworth (10) has a small role as Charles, the Earl of Bristol, whose daughter Bettina catches the eye of the king.
* Barbara Windsor (5) plays Bettina, who becomes a lady-in-waiting then later the king's new wife. Windsor has to flash the flesh again.
Notable others:
* Terry Scott plays Cardinal Wolsey.
* Patsy Rowlands gets one line as a queen destined for a beheading.
* Margaret Nolan plays a local girl with a big cleavage who the king hunts like she's a fox then seduces in a barn.
* Julian Holloway is Sir Thomas, an equerry.
* Bill Maynard plays Guy Fawkes. (The real Fawkes was born 23 years after Henry's death.)
* David Prowse is a featured extra, playing a torturer.
* Peter Gilmore hams it up as Francis, King of France.
* David Essex originally had a small role, but his scene was cut out.
Top totty: Margaret Nolan.
Kenneth Williams says: "I read the script of Carry On Henry and I think it's abysmal. My part (Cromwell) seems to equate to the thing I did in Don't Lose Yr. Head. It is liberally sprinkled with filth." – Sunday 13 September 1970 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p384)
"We saw the TV and it was Carry On Henry… amazing how well this was made! Everyone in it was competent and the sheer look of the thing was so professional." – Thursday 4 January 1979 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p574)
"ITV showed Carry On Henry. Oh, dear! it was so bad in places… truly chronic dialogue… dreadful acting. Sid James had never been quite as bad as this. A collection of such rubbish you're amazed it could ever have been stuck together. Only an audience of illiterates could ever have found this tripe amusing." – Tuesday 19 January 1988 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p780)
Review: Sadly, you can sense the charm draining away from the series with this film. There are corny gags galore, but no woofers. And there's very little comic momentum – it just kind of trundles along. (Around the time I rewatched this, I also saw ITV docudrama Cor Blimey! for the first time since it was screened in 2000. It tells the story of Sid James's affair with Barbara Windsor and restages scenes from a few Carry On films, including Henry. A decent cast and some good dialogue distract you from the massive amount of fudging that goes on with historical accuracy – it has Bernard Bresslaw playing Cardinal Wolsey, for example.)
Five "In as much as I, Roger de Lodgerley, of Bedside Manor, Wilts, hereinafter referred to as the party of the first part, did unlawfully, with malice aforethought and without taking due precaution, on the night of October 4th last, admire, covet, blandish, cosset, seduce and otherwise get at Marie, spouse to Henry Tudor, hereinafter referred to as the party of the second part, I do now hereby solemnly declare, and in witness thereof I append my signature below, that the resulting issue, herein after referred to as the party of the third part, is the direct consequence of the joining together of the party of the first part's and the party of the second part's parts" out of 10
Carry On Again Christmas (TV special, ITV, 24 December 1970)
May 28, 2015 April 4, 2016 Ian Farrington Carry On	1970, 2/10, Black and white, Carry On, Carry On TV, TV
Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins and others head for Treasure Island…
What's it spoofing? Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883).
Funniest moment: Nipper the Flipper (Charles Hawtrey) wants to be the cabin boy. However, Silver says to him, "We've already got a cabin boy. You'll have to be something else. How do you fancy the cook?" And Nipper replies, "Well, I'll have to look at him first."
The cast:
* Sid James: Long John Silver
* Kenneth Connor: Dr Livershake
* Charles Hawtrey: Old Blind Pew, Nightwatchman and Nipper the Flipper
* Terry Scott: Squire Treyhornay
* Bernard Bresslaw: Rollicky Bill
* Barbara Windsor: Jim Hawkins
* Wendy Richard: Kate
* Bob Todd: Ben Gunn and shipmate
Top totty: Barbara Windsor.
Review: Urgh. This tatty, bawdy TV special was a chore to sit through. It was made in black-and-white. Some sources claim this was to keep the budget down, but the recording date matches up with an ITV cameramen strike that also affected the first few episodes of Upstairs Downstairs. Whatever the reason, it doesn't help. Neither does the decision to abandon the previous year's sketch-show format and present one continuous – and very boring – story. The cast are trying to get mountainous laughs from molehill gags. They don't succeed.
Two peg legs out of 10
Carry On Loving (1970)
May 27, 2015 September 18, 2015 Ian Farrington Carry On	1970, 7/10, Carry On
The Wedded Bliss marriage agency brings together singletons, but not always successfully…
What's it spoofing? Romance, dating agencies and the 'free love' attitudes of the era. At times the film feels like a precursor of sex comedies such as Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) and its sequels, though it's not as vulgar or explicit.
Funniest moment: The Wedded Bliss office has a huge bank of computers – spinning discs of tape, panels of buttons and all that – which is used to determine a client's ideal date. When owner Sidney Bliss punches in the requirements, however, we see the reverse side of the machine… where his wife, Sophie, selects a card and simply shoves it through a slot. (The computer prop was first used in Gerry Anderson's TV show UFO.)
* Hattie Jacques (10) plays agency manageress Sophie Plummett, who initially claims to be married to Sidney (all the better for seeming respectable).
* Sid James (13) is Sidney Bliss, who runs the company with his 'wife', Sophie. He spends a lot of time chasing client Esme.
* Joan Sims (15) plays Esme Crowfoot, a seamstress who was once on the agency books. She's bored by Sidney's advances.
* Kenneth Williams (18) plays Percival Snooper, a counsellor who works in marriage guidance at the Citizens Advice Bureau. He's a bachelor so doesn't have anything useful to say, so his boss tells him to get a wife; after he consults Wedded Bless, Sophie takes a shine to him.
* Peter Butterworth (9) has another one-scene cameo, this time as a sinister client.
* Charles Hawtrey (19) plays private detective James Bedsop, who dons a fake beard to follow Sidney into some train-station toilets and gets arrested.
* Bernard Bresslaw (8) shows up late on as Gripper Burke, Esme's ex-boyfriend: a wrestler who's jealous of any man she goes near.
* Terry Scott plays a client called Terence Philpot. He has a funny scene where he and his amorous date keep getting interrupted.
* Richard O'Callaghan joins the Carry On team: he's essentially the latest attempt to replace Jim Dale. Bertram Muffet wants a wife so goes to Wedded Bliss. (O'Callaghan's mum, Patricia Hayes, was in Carry On Again Doctor.)
* Kenny Lynch has a cameo as a bus conductor.
* Alexandra Dane's in a one-gag scene about a busty woman and her short husband.
* Patricia Franklin and Bill Maynard play a rowing couple who Snooper fails to help.
* Joan Hickson shows up as the stuffy, fussy mother of Terence's date. Ann Way from the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers is in the same sequence but doesn't have any dialogue.
* Imogen Hassall plays Jenny, the initially dowdy but later sexed-up woman who Terence is paired off with.
* Jacki Piper from Carry On Up The Jungle plays Sally Martin, an actress who mistakes Bertram for a fashion photographer so strips down to her undies soon after meeting him.
* Bill Pertwee has a small role as a barman.
* Fred Griffiths – my mate Johnny's great uncle – again plays a cab driver in a Carry On film.
* Julian Holloway plays a fashion photographer.
* Patsy Rowlands is very funny as Miss Dempsey, Snooper's housekeeper who is not-so-secretly in love with him. When it looks like Snooper's head is being turned by Sophie, Miss Dempsey 'glams up' to show him what he's missing.
* James Beck from Dad's Army was originally in the film, but his scene was cut out and is now sadly lost.
Top totty: Alexandra Dane, who also won this category for Up The Khyber. A pair of wins, so to speak.
Kenneth Williams says: "The script has arrived of Carry On Loving. I am offered the part of Snooper (which looks interchangeable with Charlie Hawtrey) which is certainly a small part – well no – a support I suppose, but really thankless. The end is a big party shambles where everyone throws custard pies and seems to be the bottom of the barrel, but for [writer] Talbot Rothwell bottoms are capable of infinite variety." – Saturday 7 March 1970 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, pp370-371)
Review: It's another sketch-show format – however, the threads are weaved together with more complexity than in, say, Carry On Regardless. (Coincidentally, the same street in Windsor was used as the agency HQ in both films.) The story ends with a lame food fight, but until then it's generally good fun.
Seven Rogerham Mansions out of 10
Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
May 26, 2015 May 26, 2015 Ian Farrington Carry On	1970, 4/10, Carry On
A party of Edwardian explorers delve deep into the African interior, where they encounter savage natives, a tribe of sexy women, and man who's lived in the jungle ever since being abandoned there as a baby…
What's it spoofing? Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan, who first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes (then numerous sequels). A pair of recent Hammer films – One Million Years B.C. (1966) and Slave Girls (aka Prehistoric Women, 1967) – are also being spoofed. The movie was filmed as Carry On Jungle Boy.
Funniest moment: When under threat of attack by some savages, our characters decide to dig a big pit and lure them into it. They dig for hours, creating a massive hole in the ground. However, as Professor Tinkle then points out when they've dug about 10 feet down: "How do *we* get out of this?"
* Joan Sims (14) plays Lady Evelyn Bagley, an aristocratic woman whose baby went missing years earlier in Africa. In an early scene, two male characters perv on her while she's having a shower – it's clearly not Joan Sims in the nudie long shots.
* Charles Hawtrey (18) plays Lady E's husband, who's been missing for years – when he's found 67 minutes into the film, we learn he's rebranded himself as King Tonka, leader of a local tribe of women.
* Kenneth Connor (9) is back after eight films away from the series. (He'd been busy in the West End.) Here, he plays fruity ornithologist Claude Chumley.
* Sid James (12) plays Bill Boosey, the leader of the expedition who likes a tipple and fancies Lady Evelyn.
* Bernard Bresslaw (7) – it pains me to relate – is blacked up and doing an accent as African guide Upsidasi. Late in the film, in an admittedly effective gag, the character 'whites up' so he can sneak into a camp to rescue the others.
* Frankie Howerd headlines the film, playing Professor Inigo Tinkle, an ornithologist. The film is needlessly topped and tailed by scenes of him giving a lecture about his expedition.
* Jacki Piper debuts in the series. June, Evelyn's maid, meets the Tarzan-like character and soon becomes his Jane. It's the kind of part Angela Douglas was playing a few films ago.
* Terry Scott is horrendously miscast as Cecil Bagley, aka the Jungle Boy. He only got the part after Jim Dale turned it down, thinking it was a boring role. Scott sucks his stomach in and spends most of the film in a loincloth. He has little dialogue, and the character has some kind of Oedipal fixation on tits. Scott was 42 when this film was made. His parents are played by Joan Sims (39) and Charles Hawtrey (55).
* Valerie Leon plays the leader of the local 'Amazonians', the Lubby-Dubby tribe from the Lost World of Aphrodisia. "White men!" she says, practically moistening her knickers, when she first sees the regulars.
Top totty: Valerie Leon, for the third time.
Kenneth Williams says: "In the evening I stayed in to watch Carry On Up The Jungle which was a Carry On which I didn't appear in. It was quite funny and at one point I was laughing along. I was staggered to see what they got away with!! A snake going up the skirt of Joan Sims! & her look of horror turning to delight!! Kenny Connor was quite marvelous, and Terry Scott was excellent as Tarzan. Sid James doing all the same old tired automaton recitations… nothing at all to do with acting… one asked oneself: 'How of earth did he get away with it?' but of course he did, & the incredible thing about his 'career' is that it spans everything from South African Boxing [note: this 'fact' seems to have been made up by Sid James], the American musical, Revue (Touch & Go) and conventional English theatre, and radio, and TV, and v successful film career. All built on a 'persona' but nothing to do with talent." – Saturday 3 April 1976 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p513)
Review: Even by Carry On standards, the comedy is getting puerile now. The film has a low-ambition studio-bound feel about it, and is tired and pretty charmless. And racist. So, so racist. The worst one so far.
Four Oozlum birds out of 10
Carry On Christmas (TV special, ITV, 24 December 1969)
May 22, 2015 August 17, 2015 Ian Farrington Carry On	1969, 7/10, Carry On, Carry On TV, TV
On Christmas Eve, skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts and shown the error of his ways…
What's it spoofing? Charles Dickens's novella A Christmas Carol (1843), though it's a *very* loose adaptation and goes off on some distinctly non-Dickensian tangents (Frankenstein, Dracula, Cinderella…).
Funniest moment: Frankie Howerd, playing poet Robert Browning, arrives halfway through and takes over. The show basically becomes Up Pompeii! for 12 minutes and it's great fun. (Talbot Rothwell wrote both this special and that sitcom, which had only had one episode at this point.)
The cast: There are eight actors in Carry On Christmas who play 27 roles between them, including…
* Sid James: Ebenezer Scrooge
* Peter Butterworth: a beggar, Dracula, a convent girl and an ugly sister
* Bernard Bresslaw: a town crier, Bob Cratchit, Frankenstein's monster, the Spirit of Christmas Future, a convent girl, a hippy and a policeman
* Charles Hawtrey: the Spirit of Christmas Past, an angel, a convent girl and Buttons
* Hattie Jacques: a nun, Elizabeth Barrett and a passerby
* Terry Scott: Dr Frank N Stein, Elizabeth's dad, a convent girl and an ugly sister
* Barbara Windsor: another monster, the Sprit of Christmas Present and Cinderella
* Frankie Howerd, as mentioned, plays Robert Browning. Well, actually he plays himself. He breaks the fourth wall, talks to camera, comments on the fiction, addresses the crew… He's the best thing in the whole piece and returns at the end to play a terrifyingly dragged-up Fairy Godmother.
Top totty: An attractive but uncredited actress has a tiny appearance as a girl who Scrooge has hidden in a wardrobe.
Review: Shown on ITV on Christmas Eve 1969, this patchy special got 18 million viewers. There's a general air of a shambolic, quickly rehearsed panto (some corpsing has been left in), which is a feeling that's hammered home by a climactic Cinderella spoof with everyone talking in rhyming couplets. It's not really like any Carry On film, especially given how many characters each actor plays, and it's very bizarre to see the team shot on video and playing up to a studio audience.
Seven noses out of 10
Carry On Again Doctor (1969)
After an embarrassingly drunken evening, a British doctor is sent off to a medical mission in Azure Bay on the isolated Beatific Islands. There he discovers a treatment for rapid dieting, so returns to the UK to exploit it…
What's it spoofing? The medical profession again, for a third time. The movie also satirises colonial missionary work. The script began as an entry for the rival Doctor series of films, but was then rejigged by writer Talbot Rothwell as a Carry On. The filming location used for the UK hospital is the same as that in Carry On Doctor (Maidenhead Town Hall), though they're fictionally different places.
Funniest moment: In the medical mission, we hear jungle drums beating out an ominous message. Dr Nookey nervously asks Gladstone what it means, so he translates: "Manchester United 6, Chelsea 1… Arsenal 5, Wolves 0…"
* Kenneth Williams (17) plays the haughty Frederick Carver, a surgeon who wants to form his own private practice.
* Charles Hawtrey (17) appears as Dr Ernest Stoppidge, a senior house surgeon. Near the end, he has to drag up (and does so reasonably convincingly).
* Hattie Jacques (9) is a rather perfunctory matron called Miss Soaper. Coincidentally, that's the same surname that Kenneth Williams's character had in the previous film.
* Jim Dale (10), back after two films off, plays Dr Jimmy Nookey. It's an OTT performance of physical double-takes and exaggerated expressions. Nookey flirts with and woos an actress, and also has some big slapstick stunts.
* Joan Sims (13) plays wealthy private patient Ellen Moore. Carver wants her to invest in his clinic so he woos her.
* Peter Butterworth (8) worked on the film for a single day. He has a one-gag cameo as a patient. Seeing him shuffling queasily into the waiting area, two doctors have a go at guessing what's wrong with him. He replies: "Let me see now. You thought it was a slipped disc? I'm afraid you were wrong. And you thought it was hemorrhoids. I'm afraid you were wrong. As a matter of fact, I thought I was going to break wind. I'm afraid I was wrong."
* Barbara Windsor (4) plays an actress called Goldie Locks (real name: Maude Boggins) who comes into the hospital with a bruised back. She's virtually naked in her first scene, and then appears actually nude – seen from the rear – later on. After going out with Jimmy, she wants to get married but he fails to spot her hints. Director Gerald Thomas was annoyed with the actress for losing weight before the filming and therefore undercutting a gag about Goldie advertising Bristol's Bouncing Baby Food.
* Sid James (11) doesn't join the story till fairly late on, playing the orderly at the medical mission: Gladstone Screwer. He's skimming funds and living the life of Riley with his five (and counting) wives. When he comes to England, he lusts after Miss Soaper.
* Patsy Rowlands appears in a Carry On film for the first time. Miss Fosdick is the put-upon assistant of Kenneth Williams's character who, after being stranded on the Beatific Islands, chooses to stay there.
* Patricia Hayes gets one scene as Mrs Beasley, a hospital patient who seemingly comes in every day with one complaint or another.
* Wilfred Bramble cameos (mutely) as a dirty old man. His scene is scored by the theme from Steptoe & Son.
* Peter Gilmore plays Henry, a doctor.
* Valerie Leon appears as Nookey's leggy, cleavage-thrusting secretary, Deirdre.
Top totty: Valerie Leon again.
Kenneth Williams says: "Pinewood at 8. Sometimes on this picture, just before a 'take', I've suddenly had the feeling 'What on earth am I doing?' and it's almost unnerving. I realise that you get nervous from realising the importance of what you're doing. I'm all right when I have the jokes – then just go on and do it – without self-consciousness." – Wednesday 19 March 1969 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p346)
"To the Metropole to see Carry On Again Doctor. It was very good indeed, and should have got excellent reviews from the press. It moves along at a spanking pace, the cutting is excellent and the situations all hold. My performance as Carver, the surgeon, is remarkably authoritative and the incredibly banal lines which I have to say are made quite acceptable by the sort of style and panache I bring to the role. I was surprised and pleased, save for the fact that the greying hair was quite noticeably at times. Alas! my youth has left me. This should be the last film I do." – Wednesday 10 December 1969 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p363)
Review: Unlike the first two medical Carry Ons, this focuses on the hospital staff; the patients are mostly just cameos. It also has a slightly nasty, cynical streak, which has been rare in this series. It's essentially a film about people being selfish, lying, manipulating and cheating. It's all thunderingly sexist too. The story is in three sections: an opening at the hospital, which is full of Christmas-cracker-quality jokes; a segment set out in the wilds of Nebulous Foreign Location yet filmed in a small studio; and finally a farce-like climax in Nookey's clinic, which sadly never really takes off. The film has its moments, but is generally a bit of a disappointment.
Six jiggery-pokeries out of 10
Carry On Camping (1969)
May 20, 2015 Ian Farrington Carry On	1969, 8/10, Carry On
Various holidaymakers – including two plumbers, their girlfriends, a coachload of young girls, a shrieking wife and her unhappy husband – head for Paradise campsite…
What's it spoofing? Campsite etiquette. A sequence at the end also pokes fun at the then-contemporary flower-power movement. The title is a pun, of course.
Funniest moment: Sid, Joan, Bernie and Anthea arrive at Paradise, which they think is a nudist camp. A sign at the entrance reads 'All asses must be shown'. Sid asks a nearby guy where the owner is. "He's gone for a pee," is the answer. The owner then walks up, carrying a letter P, which is nailed before the word 'asses' on the sign.
* Joan Sims (12) plays Joan Fussey, a woman who lives with her nagging mother.
* Sid James (10) plays Sid Boggle – a classic (maybe *the* classic) Sid James cackling letch. He wants to get girlfriend Joan to a nudist colony, but soon switches his attentions to the much younger Babs. In the tradition of the stereotype, he never actually gets any.
* Bernard Bresslaw (6) plays Bernie Lugg, Sid's mate/sidekick. He keeps putting his foot in it by saying the wrong thing. Like in Carry On Doctor, he's paired off with Dilys Laye.
* Charles Hawtrey (16) is the never-quite-all-there backpacker Charlie Muggins.
* Barbara Windsor (3) plays schoolgirl – yes, schoolgirl – Babs. We first see her having a scrap with another uniformed girl. Next she's spotted making out with a grown man. She later outrageously flirts with Sid, a man three times her age, then her bikini top famously flies off while she's doing some exercises. You can practically hear political correctness getting ready for a fight.
* Hattie Jacques (8) gets a variance on her standard 'matron' role, as Miss Haggerd, the matron of girls school Chayste Place. She's attracted to her colleague Soaper.
* Kenneth Williams (16) plays Dr Soaper, the naive head of the school. Aside from one or two moments, he seems blissfully unaware that his charges might be attractive – he's certainly aware of Miss Haggerd's feelings, though, and has to keep putting her off.
* Peter Butterworth (7) plays the aptronymic owner of the campsite, Joshua Fiddler.
* Dilys Laye plays Anthea, Bernie's slightly prudish maybe-girlfriend who seems to be ill most of the time.
* Terry Scott appears as Peter Potter, a put-upon suburban husband who wants an exotic foreign holiday but is forced to go camping with his wife.
* Betty Marsden plays Harriet, Peter's irritatingly loud and brash other half who never pays him much attention. She has an horrendous laugh.
* Valerie Leon cameos as a sexy sales assistant in a camping-equipment shop.
* Julian Holloway's role as coach driver Jim Tanner was reportedly hacked down in post-production (he certainly seems to hang around unnecessarily, as if his contribution is now missing). Does the character's name mean the part was meant for Jim Dale?
* Patricia Franklin appears as the pregnant daughter of a local farmer. Franklin's daughter in real life, Charlotte Hatherley, was in Britpop band Ash between 1997 and 2006, and also used to go out with director Edgar Wright, who cast Franklin in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End.
Top totty: Valerie Leon.
Kenneth Williams says: "Gerald [Thomas, director] took me aside and said we'd been friends long enough for him to talk frankly about my work, and that I had been bad in the scene because I had been mugging & pulling faces and lost the 'character' of the Headmaster & that the scene had lacked credibility because of this. Peter Rodgers [producer] said 'It was like watching Kenneth Williams doing himself on television, instead of playing a character…' Of course by this time the ego was on the ground and covered in mud." – Thursday 24 October 1968 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p336)
"At one point I said to Gerald 'You can leave me out of the next film you make' and he said 'In the next one you are playing a coloured witch doctor' and I replied 'Don't bother to ask me' and Barbara [Windsor] cried out 'I'll do it Gerald' which was quite funny." – Wednesday 30 October 1968 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p336)
Review: The story begins with characters watching a nudist film (which is stock footage but has newly filmed close-ups of a pretty, young, topless blonde)… Barbara Windsor's boobs pop out a couple of times… The plot's entire thrust, as it were, is two middle-aged men lusting after sexualised schoolgirls… The amount of sex in this series has been tantrically increasing for a few films now – not actual sex, of course, but characters being obsessed with it – and now we reach, um, a peak. There's also a palpable feel of a 'Carry On family'. Many characters are given the same names of the actors, while there are strong familiar stereotypes in cackling Sid James, giggling Barbara Windsor, gormless Bernard Bresslaw, repressed Kenneth Williams and so on. On the downside, it's a shame that scenes of people on holiday were famously filmed in drab weather, while the hippy festival that climaxes the story might have been topical yet feels tacked on to provide an end sequence. But the film has a great zip to it with many quick, punchy scenes and it's often very amusing.
Eight bikini tops out of 10
Carry On… Up the Khyber (1968)
May 19, 2015 June 15, 2015 Ian Farrington Carry On	1968, 8/10, Carry On
India, 1895. When a local discovers that members of the colonial 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment are wearing pants under their famous kilts, the British reputation is left in tatters…
What's it spoofing? The British Raj, a period of colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent (1858-1947). Although obviously set in other places entirely, Michael Caine movie Zulu (1964) and Charlton Heston's Khartoum (1966) are also being referenced.
Funniest moment: The dinner scene at the end – the British characters calmly and serenely getting on with their meal while the entire building is attacked by the local warlord.
* Sid James (9) plays Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, the randy British governor.
* Joan Sims (11) is Sir Sidney's working-class wife, Joan, who's so smitten with the Khasi that she betrays her husband in hope of a bunk-up.
* Kenneth Williams (15) plays the Khasi of Kalabar, the local native leader who wants to incite anti-British sentiment. Williams mostly uses a vaguely 'foreign' accent for the part, but gets laughs when he slips into earthy English if the character is annoyed.
* Charles Hawtrey (15) is Private James Widdle, the soldier who's caught wearing undergarments. His regiment's fearful reputation comes from being known as the 'Devils in skirts', so his affection for underpants is a problem.
* Bernard Bresslaw (5) plays Bundgit Din, an Indian warrior. The name is a spoof of Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din.
* Peter Butterworth (6) plays missionary Brother Belcher. The Brits use a honey trap to blackmail him into helping them.
* Julian Holloway plays Sir Sidney's aide-de-camp, Major Shorthouse (pronounced with a posh accent, it sounds like 'short arse').
* Angela Douglas appears in a Carry On film for the final time, as Princess Jelhi, the Khasi's daughter. She plays the sitar in a couple of scenes.
* Terry Scott (Sgt Major MacNutt) was in Carry On Sergeant in 1958, but hasn't appeared since.
* Roy Castle, in his only Carry On, essentially replaces Jim Dale in the young romantic part. His earnest Captain Keene falls for Princess Jelhi.
* Alexandra Dane is Busti, a well-endowed member of another Carry On harem. Dane also had a tiny role in Carry On Doctor.
* Valerie Leon, uncredited, also plays a girl in the harem.
* Wanda Ventham appears as a wife of the Khasi (he has many), who visits Sir Sidney and offers to sleep with him in reparation for Joan running off with the Khasi.
* Peter Gilmore has a small role as Private Ginger Hale, one of the 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment.
Top totty: Alexandra Dane.
Kenneth Williams says: "Got the script of Up the Khyber Carry On film. They're offering me the part of Khasi. Which is Hindustani for lavatory [note: it isn't]. I imagine they think it's appropriate." – Monday 12 February 1968 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, pp319-320)
"First day's work on Up the Khyber. It was a lousy little scene between me and Sid James but he blows a raspberry in the middle which will get a big laugh. Roy [Castle] is v. good in the rushes & photographs v handsomely: he is incredibly naïve & ingenious." – Tuesday 16 April 1968 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, pp324-325)
Review: Well, it's based on a ridiculously silly premise. And you have to turn a blind eye to yet more 'comedy' racism. But while this is perhaps not the masterpiece some people think – it once made a BFI list of the 100 best British films – it's still broadly enjoyable stuff. There's also a mildly interesting structure in that there's no lead character. Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Roy Castle all have vague claims on that position, yet no one really drives the story.
Eight fakirs out of 10
Carry On Doctor (1967)
The story of the goings-on in a British hospital, following patients, doctors and visitors alike…
What's it spoofing? Self-referentialism hits the Carry On series. In some ways, this is a pastiche of Carry On Nurse. There's even an intertextual gag about it: "Oh, no, you don't," says Frankie Howerd as a nurse approaches with a daffodil, "I saw that film." And there's also another bit of postmodern tomfoolery: in the hospital's lobby hangs a portrait of James Robertson Justice, star of the rival Doctor films (1954-1970).
Funniest moment: Charlie Roper (Sid James) is having his blood pressure measured when he meets Nurse Sandra (Barbara Windsor). "Hi," she says to him, smiling. The blood-pressure machine explodes.
* Joan Sims (10) again shows her versatility: she's almost unrecognisable playing the meek, largely deaf Chloe Gibson. Sims was originally offered the role of the matron, but pointed out that Hattie Jacques should always play that part.
* Sid James (8) had recently had a heart attack, so was given a role that mostly consists of lying in bed. Charlie Roper, ironically, has nothing wrong with him – he's faking illness so he can stay in hospital.
* Bernard Bresslaw (4) plays Ken Biddle, a patient with a foot injury who's smitten on a woman in the female ward. (This film, it's his turn to drag up.)
* Peter Butterworth (5) plays Mr Smith, a patient who's had a lump removed from a delicate area.
* Charles Hawtrey (14) appears as Mr Barron, a patient who's having sympathy pains for his wife's labour.
* Hattie Jacques (7) returns after seven films away, and is essentially reprising her part from Carry On Nurse. It's the second of five times she played a matron in the series – here, the character has an infatuation with Dr Tinkle.
* Jim Dale (9) is a young, dashing doctor called James Kilmore. Dale is given lots of pratfalls and physical comedy to deal with.
* Kenneth Williams (14) plays Dr Kenneth Tinkle, the hyper and arrogant registrar. It's one of Williams's more OTT turns, though he initially turned the part down.
* Barbara Windsor (2) plays nurse Sandra May. She first appears in her nightie then totters through the film on high heels, attracting phwoars and lustful looks wherever she goes.
* Frankie Howerd appears in a Carry On for the first time, playing faith healer Francis Bigger. When Howerd initially turned the part down, it was offered to Kenneth Williams, but he ended up playing Dr Tinkle.
* Peter Gilmore crops up again, playing a bored ambulance driver who – along with a colleague – appears at various points in the film like a Greek chorus.
* Anita Harris returns from Follow That Camel, now playing Nurse Clarke.
* Dilys Laye (Cruising, Spying) plays Mavis Winkle, the woman with whom Ken Biddle is eager to get to know.
* Julian Holloway plays Simmons, an X-ray operator.
* Dandy Nichols (Till Death Us Do Part) has a cameo as Charlie's wife.
* Brian Wilde (Porridge, Last of the Summer Wine) plays a salesman from a rubber-sheet company, who Bigger mistakes for an undertaker.
Top totty: Barbara Windsor. "What a lovely looking pear!" she says as she waddles up to a fruit-eating ambulance driver. "You took the words right out of my mouth!" he leers back.
Kenneth Williams says: "They delivered the script of Carry On Doctor today and I read it. It's really a v. good vehicle for Frankie Howerd but all the other parts are lousy. I think that is it. This is the straw that breaks the camel's back. I wrote a nice letter to Peter Rodgers [producer] saying I didn't want to play the part." – Thursday 10 August 1967 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p309)
"They are showing Carry On Doctor in the ship's cinema today at 5 o'c [Williams was on a cruise holiday]. They had it coming out as well! I'm staying in the cabin. See enough of my face in the mirror every day." – Thursday 13 February 1969 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p344)
Review: Of the 10 actors with the most Carry On appearances, only Kenneth Connor is missing from this cast, so the film has a certain definitive quality about it. We're back to a contemporary setting for the first time since Carry On Spying (six films ago) and to 'real people' for the first time since Carry On Cabby (eight films ago). Also – to keep the statistical theme going – it's the series's second of four hospital-set films. Like Carry On Nurse, there's no real overarching plot, except for a loose thread about Kilmore's job that builds to a climax, but it's good knockabout fun.
Eight specimen jars out of 10
Follow That Camel (1967)
May 15, 2015 December 3, 2015 Ian Farrington Carry On	1967, 7/10, Carry On
When Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West is disgraced during a game of cricket, he runs off to join the French Foreign Legion…
What's it spoofing? Numerous French Foreign Legion stories, specifically PC Wren's 1924 adventure novel Beau Geste and its movie adaptations. This is the second and final film in the series not to have the term 'Carry On' in its title.
Funniest moment: When told that Arab men aren't allowed to enter their own harem tent to see the women, Bo West says, "What's the good of having them all? It's like playing cricket with no bails. There's nothing to knock off."
* Jim Dale (8) plays Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West.
* Peter Butterworth (4) is Simpson, West's gentleman's gentleman who also joins the Foreign Legion. He gets some cross-dressing to do.
* Joan Sims (9) is terrific as Zig-Zig, a fiery, sultry, exotic local woman. "I have a good ass, no?" she asks after giving Sgt Nocker a lift on her donkey.
* Bernard Bresslaw (3) plays another lazy ethnic stereotype – Sheikh Abdul Abulbul.
* Kenneth Williams (13) uses a severe Nazi-like accent as Commandant Maximillian Burger.
* Charles Hawtrey (13) plays Burger's second-in-command, Captain Le Pice. The actor originally wanted to play Simpson, thinking (rightly) that it was a funnier part.
* Angela Douglas plays Lady Jane Ponsenby, Bo's girlfriend who abandons him when he's accused of cheating at cricket. When she realises he was innocent, she heads off to bring him home from the Foreign Legion – en route, she has a series of hilariously deadpan sexual encounters.
* Peter Gilmore has another small role, playing Humphrey Bagshaw, the guy who accuses West of cheating. Feeling guilty, he then both hangs and shoots himself (but survives).
* Phil Silvers was paid a fortune (£32,000 – five times what Kenneth Williams was earning) and given top billing for playing cheeky rogue Sgt Nocker. He replaced Sid James, who was busy on sitcom George and the Dragon and in the event had a heart attack while Follow That Camel was being filmed. Silvers was a huge star, thanks to playing Sgt Bilko in hit comedy The Phil Silvers Show (1955-1959). He gets to wear his non-period horn-rimmed glasses and deliver dialogue to camera a few times. Contemporary press reports made the probably bogus claim that Woody Allen was also offered the role.
* Julian Holloway appears in a Carry On for a first time, as a cheeky train conductor. "I just want to punch your ticket," he says to Lady Jane before closing the blinds and doing just that.
* Anita Harris plays a belly dancer – an odd casting choice, seeing how she doesn't have one.
Top totty: The harem is a sight and a half.
Kenneth Williams says: "I had tea at the Dorchester on Saturday with Phyllis Silvers [sic] and we were joined by Dick Van Dyke and Yul Brynner. I would like to have heard them talk but they didn't get a chance with PS ranting on and on – 'my lovely wife and those five beautiful daughters have left me, and I have had this operation on my eye and believe me fellahs I am only half the man that I was – why even one of the waiters here – who remembers me from way back when I did this USO show with Frank Sinatra – he said that he hardly recognised me from the old days…' etc etc." – Kenneth Williams to the Hon. George Borwick, 14 June 1967 (The Kenneth Williams Letters, p62)
"We were reduced to watching Carry On Camel with me being remarkably good as the German Commandant and Jim Dale remarkably attractive as Beau [sic]. It was v well written & actually had a tag line! Angela Douglas was super! Really attractive & effectively ironic. Oh! this girl has been endlessly underrated." – Saturday 21 December 1985 (The Kenneth Williams Diaries, p732)
Review: An enjoyably daft comedy adventure. There's rather a lot of racism, though.
Seven mirages out of 10


Here we are with the sixth episode of Doctor Who series one "Dalek" directed by Joe Aheame written by Robert Shearman with original air date of April 30, 2005. Come visit the alien museum under Utah created by the man who owns the internet. Here you will see a giant metal pepperpot, a dismembered robot head, a green lumpy arm, and an alien with two hearts. Be prepared to die and cry due to the evil Dalek.


Personally, 2015 was an epic year for us. We rang in the new year on the freezing streets of NYC and spent all of January finishing up David's rotation in the Big Apple. Then, on Valentine's Day, we flew across the Atlantic to our temporary home (but forever in our hearts) Milan, Italy. We spent the Spring exploring Europe and traveling every weekend. Still can't believe all of the countries we visited! This summer, we embarked on a three-week Western USA road trip to Utah, Nevada, and California. The Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Pacific Coast Highway, Napa. #murica. Finally, in August, we settled back into our home and life in Tampa. It was a surreal year for us. This was definitely the year of travel but of course, we still found time to get our hands on our cameras and document beautiful places and people! This is one of my favorite posts of the year – the Behind the Scenes photos of us working!
Here's a look back at 2014 and 2013. Enjoy!
Full disclaimer: If you hire me as your wedding photographer, I will take advantage of your dance floor!
My new friend, her Italian boyfriend, red wine, and Milan's biggest park was the perfect mix for this session. I met Krissi a few weeks after moving to Milan through an expat Facebook group. We met for cappuccinos and instantly hit it off. For the following months, we adventured through Milan together and took each other to our favorite spots. She kept telling me about her Italian boyfriend, Simone, and how she would spend the weekends with him and his family. She told me stories of how they met through an Italian exchange student that stayed with her family in high school. After talking on the phone and video chatting, Simone flew to America to meet Krissi and her family. It was definitely love at first sight… they've been together ever since! After dating long distance, Krissi decided to move to Milan to work as an au pair and to be closer to Simone. Now, they are doing life together in Italy. I love it!
I hope you enjoy these photos of my favorite American and Italian couple at Parco Sempione in Milan, Italy.
I am so excited to share our weekend in Paris! We met our friends on Friday afternoon in the City of Light and all stayed in Kevin's apartment. We toured the major sights and enjoyed so many great experiences. My favorite things were climbing the stairs up the Eiffel Tower on Friday night and getting a beautiful view of Paris from the second level. I also loved doing a river cruise along the Seine River and getting to see the sights all lit up at night. We enjoyed buttery French pastries, fresh baguettes and delicious meals. I even got to pose my beautiful friend, Stephanie, for some quick photos in a beautifully lit Parisian park. This was our fifth, and final, weekend traveling with our co-worker friends in Europe. I have truly loved exploring Brussels, Dublin, London, Milan, and Paris with this crew!


Walid Boudhiaf is a French-Tunisian freediver, currently living in Colombia and the Caribbean. He has achieved a depth of 116m in competition in FIM, and was ranked 2nd in the 2017 world ranking for that discipline.
He also runs the Nirvana Oceanquest Freediving Competition and teaches his training and breathing techniques, mainly in the Caribbean.
And I see that just yesterday at the Carribean Cup Walid got a new National Record for Tunisia with a huge 111m CWT dive. Well done Walid! Let's see what he has to say for himself in this fascinating interview!
Spearfishing in Tunisia as a kid.
How Walid got into the competitive scene.
A short detour into the world of underwater rugby.
Getting into freediving and a first course with William Trubridge.
The advantages of living at high altitude.
Moving to Tenerife to get serious about diving.
How Walid supported himself as he began his competition career.
How Walid periodises his training and what it looks like.
What to look for in testing one's physical condition before the season.
Walid's experience with squeezes etc.
Walid's advice to is to spend more time at depth.
Remember to be there, when you're there!
A Patreon question (Arthur Kudla) about a deep blackout at the WC.
A Patreon question (Alex Davis) about nitrogen narcosis.
Another one from Alex about learning languages.
All about the Nirvana Ocean Quest Competition.
Where would Walid dive for the rest of his life?
Is freediving a spiritual pursuit for Walid?
Does he have a morning ritual?
Walid's recommended book is Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf.
Walid's plans for the future.


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La sèrie Kappa és el nom que reben una nova generació de motors de 4 cilindres fabricats per Hyundai Motor Company. Compleixen la normativa EURO 4 en l'actualitat.

S'espera que el Hyundai i20 també rebi aquest nou motor.

1.2
Hyundai va anunciar el 15 de juliol de 2008 que iniciaria la producció del motor 1.25L a la planta de Chennai, Índia. Aquest és d'arquitectura DOHC, amb l'intake manifold de plàstic i el bloc i culata d'alumini; aquesta configuració permet deixar el pes del motor en solament 84 kg. El seu sistema d'injecció és MPI amb el sistema RLFS; té un diàmetre (bore) de 71 mm i una carrera (stroke) de 75.6 mm; la seva compressió és de 10.5; el desplaçament del motor (cilindrada) és de 1.197 cc. La potència d'aquest motor és de 80 cv @ 5200 rpm i la torsió és de 112 N·m @ 4000 rpm.

Vehicles que equipen aquest motor:

 2008-actualitat: Hyundai i10

1.25
Es tracta del mateix motor esmentat però presenta diferències en la carrera (stroke), que és més llarga: 78.8 mm, quedant el desplaçament en 1.248 cc. Té les mateixes especificacions respecte de compressió del motor anterior; aquest serà ofert pels vehicles que es comercialitzin al mercat europeu. La seva potència varia en un rang de 77 cv @ 6000 rpm a 77.8 cv @ 6000 rpm i la torsió de 116 N·m @ 4000 rpm a 118 N·m @ 4000 rpm.

Vehicles que equipen aquest motor:

 2008-actualitat: Hyundai i10

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Informació del motor Kappa

Motors d'automòbil


Have our chef prepare made to order entrees for your guests onsite! Minimum 15 Guests.
Fillings: asparagus, bacon, smoked ham, spinach, chopped tomato, sautéed onion, French mushrooms, cheddar, & jarlsberg swiss.
Toppings: fresh strawberries, sliced bananas, blueberries, whipped cream, Vermont maple syrup, Nutella, and chopped walnuts.


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Assassination by a Green
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It has been difficult classifying assassinated Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn. He did not lend himself to easy political characterization. His platform, as Tunku Varadarajan writes in the Wall Street Journal, was "à la carte."
Economically, he leaned libertarian. Culturally, Fortuyn defended the extremes of liberal Dutch society. He ran on a populist message of Dutch sovereignty and European Union accountability. But what caused him to be tarnished with the label "racist" was his conservative view that the large influx of Muslim immigration to the Netherlands, if unassimilated, would alter tolerant Holland.
Most cannot help but note the irony. The flamboyantly gay Fortuyn foresaw an Islamified Holland forced to surrender its libertine laws for Sharia. Melanie Phillips in the London Spectator observed that Fortuyn embodied the contradictions of the West.
In the week after his death, many rushed to claim Fortuyn as one of their own, or at least a welcome ally. He was remembered as a charismatic gadfly who drew support from many quarters and was prepared to inject some honesty into Dutch political debate.
Yet it was neither his stance against Muslim immigration, nor his opinion on tax cuts, that got him killed. It was his position on fur.
The radical animal rights activist, Volkert van der Graaf, reportedly assassinated Fortuyn because he wanted to lift a ban on fur farming.
On the surface, the motive suffices. Van der Graaf was an extremist. A super-vegan, he did not eat honey. Described as humorless, scruffy and scrawny, van der Graaf lived on welfare in the town in Harderwijk with his wife and infant child. He dedicated his life to causing problems for local farmers.
The organization he helped found in 1994, Verenging Milieu Offensief (VMO), had initiated over 2,000 lawsuits against the expansion of animal farming.
Van der Graaf's fanaticism led him to patrol pig pens and condemn cattle-raising practices. "I thought he was a real fundamentalist. I wanted nothing to do with him," said pig farmer Wien van der Brink.
When Peter Olofson tried to switch from raising ducks to cattle farming, van der Graaf, who was intimately familiar with the details of environmental codes, pursued him with legal action for two years. "He was like a dog. He never let go," recounted Olofson.
In addition to being tenacious, he may also have been a serial murderer. Police suspect van der Graaf may have been responsible for killing a local environmental official in 1996, who worked too closely with farmers.
But why assassinate Fortuyn? He had an undeveloped environmental platform. He neither courted nor pandered to environmentalists. "The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance anymore. And I'm sick to death of your environmental movement," Fortuyn told Milieu Defensie (Environmental Defense) during his campaign.
VMO was quick to condemn the killing. Greenpeace and a host of other environmental organizations rushed to express shock and dismay, while pointing out that van der Graaf was a fanatic who acted alone.
Do the eco-extremists protest too much? Dutch dailies, Reformatisch Dagblad and De Telegraf both report that, if elected, Fortuyn would have reformed the left-wing "Action Network," which had funded VMO's activities. Reports De Telegraf: "The whole Action Network was in a panic when it was predicted that Fortuyn would win big. They were afraid he'd clean up the network."
Through 1998, VMO received $125,000 from the National Postcode Lottery, which was doled out by Foundation Doen (Do/Act Foundation). However, the founders of the National Lottery were also members of Action Network. Together with Novib, a foreign aid organization, they established Foundation Doen. The money, National Lottery assured, "was to give a share of the profit to organizations that help nature and the environment."
After being harassed by groups such as VMO, farmers asked the Second Chamber of the Dutch government to investigate who was funding their activities. No wrongdoing was found. However, the chief investigator on the case had once overseen payments to VMO.
Action Network, it is suggested, held too much influence in Dutch political parties, Green Left and the PdA (Labor Party). Both faced an unexpected populist challenge from Fortuyn.
If true, the motive behind Fortuyn's murder runs deeper than an act of passion by a tightly wound, malnourished madman out to save the skins of minks and the hides of cattle. Indeed, the killing sheds light on another paradox facing the tolerant West: the rise of green fundamentalism in its institutions.
At the fringes, the green movement sees human life as a scourge on the planet. Human economic freedom and its resulting affluence is a grave threat to the Edenic mirage imagined by those beholden to the cult of Gaia.
Fortuyn feared a Holland under the yoke of an oppressive Islamic theocracy, which sustains itself by legally eradicating free will. What he did not bargain for was being the target of another kind of religious fundamentalism: one that despises economic freedom, and by extension, human existence. He could detect the creep of a foreign brand of intolerance, yet did not sense the danger posed by the politically charged eco-terrorists in his midst.
Indeed, the green left, animal activists and other fringe groups have found themselves in a sympathetic alliance with Islamic extremists since 9/11 at marches and protests. They have one enemy: Western freedom, broadly defined. Whether it is free markets, or free will, both are fixated on removing the conditions under which human beings thrive, or even survive.


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Chapter 312: How to choose
From Nice to Shenghai, then to Yanzhou. Switching from a plane to a car, Xu Tingsheng slept throughout the journey.
Before he could even put down his luggage at the riverside residence, Xu Tingsheng was directly driven by Fang Yuqing from the station right over to Starry Splendour Nightclub.
Everyone was waiting for him there, all clenching their teeth with unfriendly looks on their faces.
Xu Tingsheng said shamelessly, "Oh, you're all here, I see? What a coincidence."
The Black Horse Club had lost two people, and the remainder all had some grievances against Xu Tingsheng somewhat. Hu Shengming and a few others who were used to messing around just directly lunged over and knocked him down. They probably would not be any more riled even if it was instead a female artiste there.
After finishing mucking around, there was not the cheerful laughter of normal friends as the atmosphere still remained rather repressed.
They sighed, saying despondently, "Xu Tingsheng, you've set us up real good."
While this might sound like a joke, it actually wasn't. This virtually represented the collective thoughts of everyone present, finally being vented in a single breath. Over this period of time, virtually everyone who had managed to hold on had been resisting a great amount of pressure.
That KTV that Hu Shengming ran with a few business partners had been wrecked several times by some people looking for trouble. The police came by for random spot checks every couple of days. It was not just once or twice that Chen Yan's lot had been called out for a discussion with some higher-ups.
Virtually everyone else was also resisting either internal or external pressure.
The more powerful and influential one was, the greater the pressure exerted on them.
In the meantime, Xu Tingsheng who had launched their 'rogue ship' had run off overseas on his own.
After respectfully apologising to everyone twice, Xu Tingsheng took out a bunch of wallets and belts and placed them on the table, saying earnestly, "I know that it's been tough on everyone recently. I've brought you some souvenirs from overseas. These are all real leather, French branded goods. Help yourself...we're all family, don't stand on ceremony. Take it like I'm presenting you some tokens of my apology."
As these were all piled up into a mini-mountain, their quality probably weren't all that good. Everyone was well aware of this. Still, he had at least painstakingly carried them all the way back from France, right?
The sincerity was there.
While no one here lacked this money and would probably not be using these things even if they took them, at least...this showed that Xu Tingsheng still had a bit of a conscience. The key was this attitude of his. Seeing his sincere gesture, everyone would naturally feel that they had to reciprocate and give him a bit of face.
Taking it was a gesture too, a response. It expressed that they blamed him and could not understand his rationale but were still willing to listen to him explain himself rather than immediately 'abandoning ship'.
"So you still have a bit of conscience...let me have a look," Jiang Jin said as he walked over.
Hu Shengming and the others took the lead, with the remaining people, including the habitually serious Chen Yan's lot, all being prepared to walk over and receive Xu Tingsheng's sincerity too.
Sitting in a corner, Fang Yuqing hid his face behind Huang Yaming with an expression which indicated that he just couldn't stand this. As Tan Yao leaned in and asked about this, he said, "He, just now, he asked me to stop the car…and bought all these at the roadside stall by the station. He got a big discount by buying these many, 20 yuan a piece."
"...too shameless," Huang Yaming muttered, "You wouldn't know, but he was also like this back before twelfth grade. He's never taken face seriously before. I still thought he already changed."
"Is this enough? How about we three act a bit and help him out?" Tan Yao asked.
Fang Yuqing shook his head, "How's that possible?!"
Indeed, Chu Lianyi and the other few ladies present now stood up and took a few steps over, glancing at the dimly lit bunch of goods a distance away. They immediately stopped with wry, helpless smiles on their faces, shaking their heads as they went back to sit.
Women need but a single glance to tell the quality of these things.
Jiang Jin who was a bit slow held up a wallet and sniffed it. He felt that something was wrong. He turned to look at the ladies...seeing their reaction, he understood.
"Xu Tingsheng, just go die already!"
Xu Tingsheng leaned against the sofa as he was pelted with a whole mass of wallets and belts.
The guys kicked up a storm.
Comparing this with that previous gathering and Xu Tingsheng's vibe of having everything in his grasp…it really felt worlds apart.
Standing with a wineglass in hand, Ye Qing said softly to the other ladies as they watched on, "Have you all noticed? It's like right after he pulled this, the atmosphere's really eased greatly."
"They feel like a bunch of very close friends and bros just mucking around together. In truth, everyone here isn't actually this close, and...even less so with him, right?" Chu Lianyi smiled.
"He wants to create a relatively more relaxed environment, making it easier for some things to be voiced out. After all, all of us actually have many things weighing on our minds with various thoughts of our own and quite a few things hidden, right?"
"Let's wait and see what he has to say then."
Wu Kun was also watching from the side, smiling as he waited.
"Well, you're all clear on my situation too. I seem to have had the most trouble. A while ago, our education license was even taken away as our training institute almost can't operate anymore. I won't go into the details," After things had calmed down, Xu Tingsheng smiled, "How about...you talk about your situations? A bucket of tears and a noseful of snot as you say it-however is fine."
Some time passed. Yet, no one had spoken, pouring out their grievances.
If Xu Tingsheng had returned a few days ago, there would have been a bunch of people pouring out their grievances without him even having to ask, saying that they nearly couldn't hold on any longer and asking him to say something even if it was just for appearances.
But now, even though the pressure on them was still great and they were still suffering, the tides had actually already been changing these past few days.
There were some things that everyone present was fully aware of. What had really enabled these people to hold on up till now was not their trust in Xu Tingsheng. It was impossible for them to have such great, unwarranted trust in Xu Tingsheng.
The current Xu Tingsheng did not possess such qualifications.
The crux of the matter was that Xu Tingsheng had been right about something. Having survived that pressure, tiding through the 'defiantly resisting death' period, things would be different then.
Xu Tingsheng had not said what would follow that. Still, everyone had already encountered this now. They were 'benefits', conditions, enticements, promises...having survived Xu Tingsheng's so-called 'defiantly resisting death' period, virtually all of them had been promised some things.
Meanwhile, all the other side had asked was that they give up on this venture.
The logic therein was strange indeed. Apart from them partying together and resisting a wave of pressure, they had actually not invested anything into this at all. Even if they gave up on this venture now, they would actually not have lost anything they had possessed at the start.
Yet, they would be able to receive a whole bunch of benefits.
Baiting bare-handedly, netting a profit.
Such as Hucheng.
One. Xu Tingsheng had gathered a group of people to participate in the acquisition of the No. 1 and No. 2 plots of land, next also demonstrating the capabilities and determination to succeed.
Two. Hucheng had faced threats and pressure from various entities. While it had been tough, they had still defiantly resisted this pressure and held on, gritting their teeth and not letting go.
Three. When the threats and the pressure had been ineffective and they also could not really give a killing blow, hence did enticements come. There was a vast plot of unused land behind their training institute that Xu Tingsheng had previously tried but failed to acquire a few times. Now, those bigwigs were respectfully offering it to him with open arms, promising to give it to Hucheng to expand their training institute at a low price.
At the same time, there would also be a series of preferential treatment and care from a few agencies, such as the education department who could bestow endless glory upon Hucheng's training institute in Yanzhou. At the same time, Hucheng could also enter the list of enterprises that were specially supported by Yanzhou City, enjoying a series of beneficial, helpful policies.
And the sole condition was that Xu Tingsheng and those of the Black Horse Club agree on giving up on contending for the No. 1 and No. 2 plots of land.
This was the entire process of 'baiting bare-handedly, netting a profit'.
The boundless power and 'sacrificial' spirit of these local snakeheads really had to be admired. After all, as compared to Xu Tingsheng unrelentingly raising the price of the land by two whole units...this was nothing at all, really.
Not hiding anything at all, Xu Tingsheng reported all the 'enticements' that Hucheng had received before saying, "Look at how smart it was for me to go into hiding for a while. What about you guys? Come one, what enticements have you received?"
Everyone had originally been hiding things, afraid that others might learn what they had been offered. Xu Tingsheng spoke candidly about the enticements he had received at once, breaking that deadlock.
Smiling, the beautiful Ye Qing was the next to speak, "Jinxiong, Dacheng and the companies under them will all use the ships of our shipping company the import of construction materials and some other items in the future. The three year contract is right there, just waiting for me to sign it. This matter is actually very important to me. Actual monetary gains aside, this concerns my importance in shipping and my voice in my family. After all, I advocated and am in charge of my family's shipping business."
"Vocation, office chairman. I just had a chance to compete for it before. Now, it's more or less a guarantee."
Chen Yan was the third to speak as he got straight to the point. Still, for him who worked in a government department, this was actually not a minor enticement at all. On the contrary, it was very enticing indeed. With the vocation of office chairman that was connected to both above and below...it was an ideal springboard to a higher position.
Following their example, everyone soon honestly reported the 'promises' and 'enticements' that they had received. Some were related to business, others connections and vocations, and some were even more direct…
"They just offered me money. The sum isn't that big, but it's still fine. If we take it, us guys will be able to open a branch for our KTV," Hu Shengming smiled.
Hu Shengming's words caused Xu Tingsheng to recall an incident in his previous life. Once, his cousin who ran a business had suddenly looked for him and asked him to sign up to participate in some auction thing run by a government body, assuring him that she would help him with the guarantor fee.
Not knowing what was going on, Xu Tingsheng had just went. In the end, having done nothing at all, he had claimed 800 yuan and returned.
Actually, he had received the least out of all the bidders...the final bidder who had succeeded had used different amounts of money to take care of all his competitors of varying strength. In this auction, he had still ultimately profited quite a bit, whereas everyone else had also more or less received some benefits.
The main reason behind things conceivably ending like this, resulting in a situation where 'everyone is a winner', was this: The target of the auction was owned by the government.
Now, those plots of land were owned by the government.
Besides the enticements offered to these individuals, the local real estate companies had even given the Black Horse Club a collective promise: If they agreed to give up on those two plots of land, they would be able to acquire Plot No. 4 at a low price. No one would compete with them or make things difficult for them.
The reason was a simple and clear one. They had already internally agreed on how to split the first three plots of land, this being their own matter. So long as Hucheng stayed out of this and did not mess things up for them...claim away all those benefits. Plot No. 4-you can have it too.
This was equivalent to accepting they of the Black Horse Club into the real estate business. Of course, they would just be a mere accompaniment.
The problem that remained was: How do we choose?
Everyone collectively looked at the one person who had orchestrated the current situation, Xu Tingsheng.


One of the unexplained elements of British culture is their love of strangely flavoured crisps ("chips," for those of you playing along at home).
Yes, I did actually try these. But having never had roast ox, I'm not sure how close they came to the real thing.
I suppose "strange" is a relative term...I tried "olive and thyme" flavored Lay's potato chips in Turkey.
I actually think it's really cool when large multi-national companies adjust their menus to local taste buds, such as McDonalds. They may, indeed, be involved in a plot to make us into one big, nasty McWorld, but I sure did enjoy the teriyaki burgers and corn pies in Asia!
I could never get used to the shrimp crisps. Roasted ox is a new one, though.
Who remembers hedgehog flavoured crisps. Mid eighties they came out.
As a exiled welshman I do miss golden Wonder brand of crisps especially prawn Cocktail and remeber the time you used to get regular crisps with a blue bag of salt inside! Ahhhh nostalgia!
Hedgehog flavoured crisps hailed from Newport. I believe the manufacturers were taking to court for false advertising, but ingeniously provided some gypsies/-insert favoured PC term here- as expert witnesses who confirmed that the crisps did indeed taste like the hedgehogs they would sometimes eat, and it was agreed that if the name was changed to "Hedgehog flavour" trade could continue.
And the thing is, they all pretty much taste the same.
I'm just glad they're REAL crisps, those plastic ones just don't hit the spot.
When I lived in the North East of England I subsisted on Walker's pickled onion crisps and Vimto. Feel free to throw in a sausage roll and a Mars bar in that equation.


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Q: pack/unpack functions for C++ NOTE: I know that this has been asked many times before, but none of the questions have had a link to a concrete, portable, maintained library for this.
I need a C or C++ library that implements Python/Ruby/Perl like pack/unpack functions. Does such a library exist?
EDIT: Because the data I am sending is simple, I have decided to just use memcpy, pointers, and the hton* functions. Do I need to manipulate a char in any way to send it over the network in a platform agnostic manner? (the char is only used as a byte, not as a character).

A: In C/C++ usually you would just write a struct with the various members in the correct order (correct packing may require compiler-specific pragmas) and dump/read it to/from file with a raw fwrite/fread (or read/write when dealing with C++ streams). Actually, pack and unpack were born to read stuff generated with this method.
If you instead need the result in a buffer instead of a file it's even easier, just copy the structure to your buffer with a memcpy.
If the representation must be portable, your main concerns are is byte ordering and fields packing; the first problem can be solved with the various hton* functions, while the second one with compiler-specific directives.
In particular, many compilers support the #pragma pack directive (see here for VC++, here for gcc), that allows you to manage the (unwanted) padding that the compiler may insert in the struct to have its fields aligned on convenient boundaries.
Keep in mind, however, that on some architectures it's not allowed to access fields of particular types if they are not aligned on their natural boundaries, so in these cases you would probably need to do some manual memcpys to copy the raw bytes to variables that are properly aligned.

A: Why not boost serialization or protocol buffers?

A: Yes: Use std::copy from <algorithm> to operate on the byte representation of a variable. Every variable T x; can be accessed as a byte array via char * p = reinterpret_cast<char*>(&x); and p can be treated like a pointer to the first element of a an array char[sizeof(T)]. For example:
char buf[100];
double q = get_value();

char const * const p = reinterpret_cast<char const *>(&q);
std::copy(p, p + sizeof(double), buf);

// more stuff like that

some_stream.write(buf) //... etc.

And to go back:
double r;

std::copy(data, data + sizeof(double), reinterpret_cast<char *>(&r));

In short, you don't need a dedicated pack/unpack in C++, because the language already allows you access to its variables' binary representation as a standard part of the language.

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