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Nicola Sturgeon coronavirus update RECAP: 17 of 67 new Scottish cases identified in Greater Glasgow
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the new cases in Glasgow, identified in the last 24 hours, are being examined carefully for any kind of pattern
Gillian LoneySenior editor
Christina O'NeillDigital Journalist
Gary Armstrong
17 more positive coronavirus cases have been identified in Greater Glasgow and Clyde in the last 24 hours.
The First Minister said at today's briefing that 67 new cases across Scotland bring the total to 18,847 - with 39 of those new cases found in the Grampian area.
As reported on Glasgow Live, Aberdeen is under lockdown restrictions as a total of 79 cases have been confirmed in relation to a cluster there - another 30 cases are also under investigation.
As for the new cases here in the greater Glasgow area, the FM said the Scottish Government is "examining these very carefully to see if there's any kind of pattern".
Some 270 people are in hospital across Scotland and four are in intensive care. Thankfully, no further deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, keeping the Scots death toll at the same level for more than two weeks.
Today's briefing follows news of another pub in Glasgow reporting a positive case - The Swinton in Baillieston issued a statement to punters letting them know that a fellow customer had tested positive after returning from holiday. More on this story here.
For all the latest on Scotland's battle against the coronavirus, follow our live blog below for updates as they happen.
Number of Covid-19 inpatients in Glasgow hospitals rises by three overnight 14:19
FM urges school pupils to appeal to SQA over results 13:23
Virus spread 'not being driven solely by younger people' despite uptick in cases 13:12
Increase in cases among 20-40 age group in Glasgow 12:56
233 contacts traced after Aberdeen outbreak 12:41
Number of Covid-19 inpatients in Glasgow hospitals rises by three overnight
The latest statistics have been released by the Scottish Government, confirming a rise in 17 cases of coronavirus in the Glasgow area in the past 24 hours.
5,036 have tested positive for the virus, an increase on yesterday's figure of 5,019.
154 people are in hospitals in the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde area than yesterday, an increase in three from yesterday's total of 151.
FM urges school pupils to appeal to SQA over results
Nicola Sturgeon says she may have joined school pupils protesting outside the SQA offices in Glasgow tomorrow, had she been taking exams.
The exam body has come under fire for its moderation process, which saw 124,000 pupils receive downgraded marks.
The pass rate of pupils in the most deprived data zones was reduced by 15.2% from teacher estimates after the exam board's moderation.
In contrast, the pass rate for pupils from the most affluent backgrounds dropped by 6.9%.
The FM is urging young people to speak to their teachers and submit appeals over their results.
"If you have been treated unfairly, that will be rectified through this process," she said.
"I feel what you're going through but we're not saying this is the end of the road for you."
Virus spread 'not being driven solely by younger people' despite uptick in cases
Interim Chief Medical Officer Gregor Smith said older age groups are still represented in cases after it was confirmed more people aged 20-40 are testing positive for the virus in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
He said: "Although we are seeing a strong signal for younger age groups testing positive, another thing that's important to say is it's not solely younger age groups. The age range in Scotland and around the UK still involves older people as well. We know from experience over the last few months they are more at risk. I don't want people to think that more younger people testing positive for the virus means that this is being driven by the younger population. It's just a changing demographic we're starting to see more strongly."
Increase in cases among 20-40 age group in Glasgow
A rise incases among those aged 20-40 in Greater Glasgow and Clyde is "one of our biggest risk areas," Nicola Sturgeon said.
The FM said she could not give a full demographic breakdown but that "broadly speaking" there is an increasing proportion of younger people testing positive for coronavirus than earlier in the pandemic.
She said she understands people want to go out and see friends as lockdown eases and is not "pointing the finger at anyone" but added: "I wouldn't be doing my job properly if I didn't point out the trends."
233 contacts traced after Aberdeen outbreak
A total of 79 cases have been confirmed in Aberdeen in relation to the cluster, with a further 30 under investigation as being possibly connected to the 32 venues announced by the Scottish Government.
A total of 233 contacts associated with these cases have been traced, with the number expected to rise as the number of cases do.
Nicola Sturgeon also said that she expects to be reporting a rise in the number of people infected in Aberdeen on Friday.
The First Minister said: "If you have been to any of these premises, even if Test and Protect hasn't been in touch with you, we're still asking you to be extra vigilant for symptoms."
She also urged people contacted by the Test and Protect teams, in Aberdeen or anywhere else in Scotland, to comply with advice they are given.
The First Minister concluded by thanking the people of Aberdeen for their co-operation, adding: "I know that this is a real blow to the city and all of us regret that we've had to take this position, but I do believe that people understand why it is necessary.
"There are just too many uncertainties about this outbreak right now so we are not yet confident that we can keep it under control without these additional measures."
R-number has risen to between 0.6 and 1, FM said
Addressing the cluster in Aberdeen, the First Minister said that there were a suspected 39 cases in the NHS Grampian area.
Nicola Sturgeon also said that 17 new cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde are being examined to see if there are any visible patterns.
The range of the reproduction rate of the virus, the First Minister said, has risen to between 0.6 and one, compared to the most recent estimate of between 0.6 and 0.9.
However, she said that, as the number of cases drop, the reproduction number becomes less reliable.
Some 275 people, as of last week, are infectious in Scotland, she said.
17 coronavirus cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde
No further coronavirus deaths since yesterday, with death toll remaining at 2491
67 cases confirmed yesterday, taking total to 18847 in Scotland
Represents a net increase of 66, one has been denotified
17 in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area
39 of the 67 in Grampian health board area
270 patients in hospital confirmed covid (an increase of three)
Four in Intensive Care (increase of one)
MSP criticised for suggesting Aberdeen lockdown imposed as 'diversionary tactic'
Scottish Labour's deputy leader has been criticised by an Aberdeen MP for an "unbelievably out of touch" tweet suggesting the city's lockdown was a diversion from controversy over exam results and Covid-19 deaths.
Jackie Baillie quoted a tweet portraying a fictional meeting where the emergency local lockdown was suggested as an attempt to distract journalists from other issues at the First Minister's coronavirus briefing.
The tweet she quoted said: "So, Sturgeon's staff meeting this morning. 'I'm sorry FM but you're going to get eaten even by this press on the SQA. Not to mention your false figures on deaths.' Nicola: 'Any ideas?' Intern (shyly): 'How about we close down Aberdeen?' Nicola: 'Give this person a full time job!'
Ms Baillie added the comment: "A classic diversionary tactic - wow," accompanied by the large pair of eyes emoji.
The tweet drew a sharp rebuke from the SNP's Aberdeen North MP Kirsty Blackman, who accused Ms Baillie of "making rubbish party political jibes".
Emergency restrictions have been placed on Aberdeen, with bars, cafes and restaurants ordered to close, amid a cluster of coronavirus cases.
The announcement was made by Nicola Sturgeon at Wednesday's media briefing, as she said 54 cases linked to the outbreak had been confirmed.
The tweet quoted by Ms Baillie joked that the emergency measures were an attempt to deflect attention from the backlash over exam results moderation that disproportionately downgraded pupils from deprived areas.
Education Secretary John Swinney has insisted the process was "fair", while Ms Sturgeon said the results would not have been "credible" if the pass rate of the most-deprived pupils had risen by the 19.8% estimated by teachers before moderation.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) downgraded 124,564 pupils' results in its moderation process, revising down the pass rate of the poorest fifth of Scottish pupils by 15.2% compared to a 6.9% drop for those from rich backgrounds.
Responding to Ms Baillie's tweet, Ms Blackman said on Twitter: "Unbelievably out of touch comment by an unbelievably out of touch party.
"jackiebmsp my constituents are going through yet another rollercoaster of worry and pain and you are seeking to trivialise it by making rubbish party political jibes. You should be ashamed."
Asked about her post, Ms Baillie said: "The virus cluster in Aberdeen is a serious cause for concern and the Scottish Government and Aberdeen City Council have made the correct decision to protect the wellbeing of the community by reimposing certain restrictions.
"The containment of the virus is of the highest importance and Scottish Labour will continue to support the efforts of the Government to do so, while holding it to account for its failings."
She also questioned why the Education Secretary has been tasked with leading the response to this outbreak "while his education brief is in utter disarray".
She added: "There are numerous other ministers capable of leading this response and the choice of Mr Swinney cannot be used to escape scrutiny of the exam results fiasco.
"He had one job to do and he has spectacularly failed at that, so I wouldn't put him in charge of anything else.
"The reimposition of restrictions will inevitably have a negative impact on the economy of Aberdeen and the north east. It is vital that the Scottish Government is willing to do all it can to protect not only the physical but also the economic wellbeing of the area."
Ms Blackman, the SNP's former deputy leader at Westminster, later added: "It's absolutely shocking that the deputy leader of Scottish Labour has resorted to endorsing conspiracy theories during a public health pandemic.
"Jackie Baillie should be ashamed of her attempt to trivialise this crisis by making party political jibes.
"Jackie Baillie should apologise to the people of Aberdeen, and think very carefully before she tweets anything like this again."


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I's shaping up to be another blockbuster theater season in NYC. New productions set to come to Broadway and Off-Broadway in the 2017 - 2018 season are an appealing mix of musicals, dramas and comedies, including revivals and Bruce Springsteen in concert.
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Springsteen on Broadway – Bruce Springsteen makes his Broadway debut with a solo show at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Performances begin October 3, with an official opening on October 12. The legendary recording star will perform five shows a week through February 3rd. Note that tickets are no longer available online, but some dates are still available at the box office, 219 West 48th St. Bring money. Crain's reports tickets are selling for as much as $6,500 for opening night.
Torch Song – This is an Off-Broadway revival of Torch Song Trilogy, which made Harvey Fierstein a theatrical force to be reckoned with. Three short plays follow drag performer Arnold Beckoff navigating the perilous waters of New York City in the late '70s and early '80s. Fierstein wrote and starred in the original 1982 Broadway run, which played an incredible 1,222 performances. Cast includes Michael Urie, who wowed audiences last season with his comic panache in The Government Inspector, stars, Michael Rosen (Dot), Jack DiFalco (Marvin's Room), and Academy Award-winner Mercedes Ruehl. At Second Stage Theater, beginning Sept. 28.
Latin History for Morons – Emmy winner John Leguizamo returns to Broadway in his original one-man riff, direct from his acclaimed engagements at The Public Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theater. Performances begin October 19, with an official opening on November 15, at Broadway's Studio 54.
Carousel – The iconic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical returns with an all-star cast including Joshua Henry, Tony Award-winner Jessie Miller and Metropolitan Opera star Renee Fleming, choreographed by Justin Peck and directed by three-time Tony Award Winner Jack O'Brien. Previews begin Feb. 28th, at the Imperial Theater, with opening night set for April 12. The show opened originally in 1945 and ran for nearly 900 performances, with choreography by Agnes deMille, and starring John Raitt, father of folk singer Bonnie Raitt, as the carnival barker Billy Bigelow. The show includes the well-known songs "If I Loved You", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" (which always reduces me to tears, no matter who sings it). Richard Rodgers later wrote that Carousel was his favorite of all his musicals. Preview tickets are as low as $59 from Telecharge.
Children of a Lesser God – Mark Medoff's landmark play will return to Broadway this spring for the first time since its 1980 Tony Award-winning premiere production. Starring Joshua Jackson and introducing Lauren Ridloff in their Broadway debuts, and directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, Children of a Lesser God will begin performances at Studio 54 on March 22, with an opening night set for April 11.
Frozen – Disney Theatrical's newest Broadway musical has set its opening night. The stage adaptation of the hit film that tells the tale of two sisters pulled apart by a mysterious secret will begin previews on February 22, 2018, and officially open at the St. James Theatre on March 22. Frozen is currently playing its out-of-town tryout at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, through October 1.
The NY Times reviews this as "darker" than the sunny film version.
The Iceman Cometh – Tony Award®-winner Denzel Washington will return to Broadway this spring in a new production of the classic Eugene O'Neill drama. Previews begin March 22 in advance of an opening night on April 26 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
Meteor Shower – Comedy-world icon Steve Martin's new play will star Emmy Award-winners Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key in their Broadway debut, along with past Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti and Alan Tudyk; four-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Zaks will direct. Previews begin November 1, 2017 at the Booth Theatre. Opening night is set for November 29.
Travesties – Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the first Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's 1976 Tony Award-winning Best Play, direct from its hit, sold-out productions at London's Menier Chocolate Factory and the West End. Patrick Marber will return to direct the London production's acclaimed star, Tom Hollander, as Henry Carr. Previews begin March 29; the show opens officially on April 24 at the American Airlines Theatre.
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Exclusive Interview: 'Teen Mom' Star Maci Bookout Says Fans May View Her Differently After Reading Her Book
July 21, 2015 by The Ashley
Maci's book was released today!
Teen Mom OG star Maci Bookout is celebrating the release of her new book, Bulletproof, which officially hit store shelves today! The book release day has been a long time coming for Maci (and for her fans who are eager to read her book!)
In an exclusive interview with The Ashley, Maci explained why she thinks Bulletproof will change the way 'Teen Mom' fans view her, and what it was like reliving the major events of her life and putting them into words.
"Fans will get a different picture of me," Maci told The Ashley. "It may change their mind of how they think of me. My goal is to just tell them my story from my point of view, rather than what they took away from the show."
According to Maci, Bulletproof gives readers a lot of background on her childhood and then jumps to Maci's life at the age of 15, when she met her son Bentley's father, Ryan Edwards.
"It goes over our relationship and goes basically through the last six years and everything that went on," Maci said. "In the end, it talks a little bit of what's going on in my life now. It talks about how I met [my boyfriend] Taylor [McKinney], how he moved out here and then the pregnancy with Jayde, but the book was finished before I gave birth to her."
Maci said that fans often tell her that she's their "favorite 'Teen Mom'" but she feels that they may think this because they didn't get the full picture of her life from the show.
"I felt like I was constantly hearing people say, 'You make it look so easy' and 'You are always so put together' but I always keep my emotions very internal and I think that came across as me making it look easy," Maci said. "I want people to know that I was struggling and there were times where I had breakdowns and things were really difficult for me. People can really understand what I was going through, even though I may not have said it or put it out there on the show."
She added that Bulletproof will give readers a good idea of how much help she has had raising Bentley.
'When people say I'm a favorite 'Teen Mom,' sometimes people don't put into perspective that I'm one of few girls, if not the only girl, who grew up in a very stable household," she said. "When I had Bentley I had my parents' full support and Ryan's parents' full support and all of my friends. That made it much easier for me to have that behind me. I don't know if any of the girls, except for maybe a couple, had an army behind them like I did. I don't know where I would be or how I would be if I didn't have the support that I did. It's pretty rare to have the support that I had and still have today."
Writing the book was fun, yet painful at some points, Maci said.
"There were things that I had to write about that I didn't want to relive or think about because of how I felt while it was going on," she said. "So a lot of the book was really kind of sad, having to go back and relive those times was difficult. It was all enjoyable though to get it out, and look back and realize things from myself."
Reliving those moments made Maci realize that she sometimes didn't make the best decisions as a young mom.
"It was funny to write about things that I did, or decisions that I made back then," she said. "Now I think, 'Oh my God, you were such an idiot! Why did you ever think that was a good idea?!' But I was a teenager trying to do the best I could. "
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Diva says:
No offense but lots of ppl have made ends meet and been successful single moms without big $$$ from MTV…I'm not sure that's really such a struggle..
fhammer says:
This half-wit can barely piece togethera a cogent sentence yet she "authors" a book?
how dare you! she is a writer! she has pencils tattooed on her back for christ's sake!!!
Why are these girls in such a rush to get their books out they pick horrible pictures of themselves for the cover? Maci and Kail have pregnancy bloat, and Amber's is a freaking selfie. Act like you care about your work, ladies!
Young Buck says:
I heart ginger minge.
I still do not quite understand why she is so popular…
ShaunBonJovi says:
And how much of this "people may see me differently" is just a ploy to get people to buy the book out of curiosity? I wont fall for that.
just me says:
Sorry to burst your ginger bubble maci ..but you were Never my favorite teen mom.


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A wood stork hunts for food at Caw Caw County Park.
Caw Caw County Park is a great place to process our daily experiences slowly, intentionally and carefully.
Our son came back to Charleston last week for his wedding here on Saturday. He and his bride live in Ottawa, Ontario, so we don't see them often, but for years when he has been home, he and I have often gone to Caw Caw County Park for long walks.
We walked there first when he was 5, before Caw Caw was developed as a park, thanks to a friendship with Danny Shelton who was looking after the property.
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Thanks to Caw Caw, I've learned something about paying attention to the place where I am and what's happening around me with no compulsion to make anything happen.
Of course, it's different every time: Some interesting thing never noticed before, different birds showing up, an alert water snake in the canal, a view down an ancient lane in just that sun. These small things draw me back again and again. I am glad they do. Why?
"Bucket lists" drive us to new (pre-planned) thrills and sensations or they fill in gaps. There may be a place for that if we can afford them. (Bucket lists can often be expensive holidays.) But they don't coax us to slow down to where this succession of experiences can be reflected on and savored, letting their subtle flavors season our lifetime of experience. We need the kinds of experiences that slow us down for real savoring.
That's what I mean about Caw Caw. You may have a different place, a stretch of beach or a certain spot in the mountains, a city park or your own backyard garden that does the same thing for you. It's a "slow" place that lets you really taste it. And doing that helps you to taste the rest of your life, too.
There may be a reason why these contemplative places are more important to us elders than far-flung bucket-list places. When our minds start slowing down, as mine has, they may be more suited to thinking long thoughts about things grown familiar.
In earlier "working" years, when did we have uninterrupted time for long thoughts? When raising children, you have minute-to-minute responsibilities that demand attention. People in business are busy processing information and making decisions. Teaching and health care, in fact, most occupations, require constant attention, and working people get tired.
Where's the time for contemplative thinking? Younger brains require and value agility, not patience. Older brains slow down to let our thoughts catch up. But the slow brain may be the wise brain. It can deal with topics more suited to slower, maybe deeper, thinking that is reflective, nonpurpose-driven, full of imagination, connections and sometimes even insight.
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Of course, you don't need a particular place like Caw Caw to do that. But I think it helps to have slow places or slow activities that don't "excite" us but teach us a better quality of attention as we age. They help in our great work of recollection.
I recall a story a member of our church told me many years ago. A music therapist, he was working with a young boy with such severe ADHD that he had to be institutionalized.
Alone in a room with a piano and the boy literally climbing the walls, my friend played fast, wild music in step with the boy's frenzy. Gradually, he slowed the music down and the boy slowed down. And when he moved into one of Chopin's calm and lovely etudes, the boy stopped his frenetic activity and then sat down beside him on the piano bench.
Elders should look for places and pursuits that help us feel quiet inside, for the important work of remembering who we are.
Bert Keller and Bill Simpson write the occasional column, "Aging for Amateurs." Keller, a retired minister and bioethicist, wrote this installment. Comments, questions and suggestions are welcome at agingforamateurs@gmail.com.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Kris Perry and Sandy Steir, lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban, tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on Friday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Kris Perry and Sandy Steir, lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban, tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on Friday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris officated the ceremony, who declared them "spouses for life."
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Attorney General Kamala Harris, right, officiates the wedding of Kris Perry, left, and Sandy Stier in San Francisco, Friday, June 28, 2013. Stier and Perry were married Friday, June 28, 2013, after a federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the state of California to immediately resume issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a 4 1/2-year freeze.
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Sandy Stier, left, and Kris Perry wave at supporters after they were wed by California Attorney General Kamala Harris at City Hall in San Francisco, Friday, June 28, 2013.
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Q: Given $n$, find smallest number $m$ such that $m!$ ends with $n$ zeros I got this question as a programming exercise. I first thought it was rather trivial, and that $m = 5n$ because the number of trailing zeroes are given by the number of factors of 5 in $m!$ (and factors of 2, but there are always a lot more of those).
But it seems like this is not true, because I'm not getting the correct answers for certain $n$. Any hints?

A: The answer lies in the very interesting observation made in this post:
How come the number $N!$ can terminate in exactly $1,2,3,4,$ or $6$ zeroes but never $5$ zeroes?
Basically, for some n there's just no solution, unless you read "ends with n zeros" as "ends with at least n zeros", but computers don't do that.

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Battle of Britain – Movie Review
Product summary Title Battle of Britain Directed by Guy Hamilton Format 151 min, available on DVD and Blueray Availability and pricing Available to buy ...
By Brett Holman, Airminded | Posted on 2010-04-21 | Comments (0) | Category: Product News & Reviews | Tags: films
Title Battle of Britain
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Format 151 min, available on DVD and Blueray
Availability and pricing Available to buy from Amazon.co.uk
Since I shamefully forgot about Battle of Britain Day last year, I made sure not to repeat the same mistake again. I'm marking the occasion by re-watching the classic 1969 film Battle of Britain, directed by Guy Hamilton.
I must confess that I love this film. It's not just because of the the fantastic aerial action sequences, featuring several dozen real Spitfires, Hurricanes, Me 109s and He 111s.1 Well, it's mainly because of that (and the music, oh yes, the music — Ron Goodwin's stirring and bombastic theme as well as the William Walton piece in the dreamlike "duel in the sky" sequence [edit: actually called "Battle in the air"]) but it's also because it manages to encapsulate just about every theme, anecdote, stereotype and myth about the Battle going. 'Call me Meyer'? Check. The Big Wing debate? Check. 'Yellow-nosed bastards'? Check. WAAFs and their plotting tables? Check. Home Guards armed with pitch-forks? Check. Galland asking Goering for a squadron of Spitfires? Check. Over-enthusiastic and unintelligible Poles engaging the enemy against orders? Check. Civilians huddled in Tube stations? Check. 'Achtung! Spitfire!' Check. Fresh-faced young pilots rushed into action and to their deaths after only a few hours' training? Check. I could go on and on, and in fact I will! The invasion barges assembling in France? Check. The close escort order? Check. The importance of radar? Check. The turn on London? Check. RAF fighter pilots unbuttoning their top button? Check. The attention to various details in the film is commendable.
OK, I'll stop now! But my point is that Battle of Britain is your one-stop shop for reaffirming the myth of 1940, and is, to me, all the more enjoyable for it. For the others, it is probably partly responsible for the long-lasting debate if it really was only the RAF which 'saved' Britain in 1940, or if it was due to other circumstances. The revisionist historians like to claim that the actual Battle was not that important. That the Germans lost the battle, rather than the RAF won it. That the Germans already had eyes on Russia and really wanted to ignore Britain as a sideline. Or that the Germans couldn't have crossed the Channel anyway because of the Royal Navy.
I don't see why it has to be an either situation. The RAF was the first line of defence, the Navy was the second (and the Army, the third). Massively inferior as they were at sea, the Germans had absolutely no chance whatsoever, unless they had air superiority. Even then, of course, it would have been decidedly dicey and perhaps impossible. However, it never came to that, because the RAF did their job (and not just Fighter Command, but Bomber Command and Coastal Command too, in attacking the invasion ports and airfields, at great cost). But the Navy's strength was essential to Britain's victory. It was why Germany was forced to fight Britain in the air in the first place — without the Navy, maybe Germany could have chanced an invasion against the battered Army.
Rather than the inter-service rivalry question, I think that the persistence of the myth of 'The Few', which the movie serves so well, is more interesting, and more telling. In Battle of Britain, Dowding (brilliantly played by Laurence Olivier) says something to the effect that his men needed a 4:1 kill ratio just to keep even, meaning shooting down four German aircraft for every British one lost (actually, he elides aircraft and aircrew, but it's clear the former was meant.). But as Stephen Bungay argues in The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain , once production, reserves, and training are taken into account, it was the other way around. The Luftwaffe had sustained heavy losses in the spring of 1940, which was very bad seeing as it had been built to maximise front-line strength, to the neglect of reserves. And despite having an apparently huge superiority in numbers, the key comparison was in numbers of fighters, and single-seat fighters at that, where the Luftwaffe only had a slight edge. Every German aircraft shot down over Britain meant a permanent loss of aircrew, whereas British pilots who were shot down were often soon back at their squadrons.
Battle of Britain critics have (rightfully) claimed from the beginning that as a straight historical account this film fails rather badly. Most of the characters are artificial, created for the involved stars. Completely disparate stories of three Squadron Leaders remind of disaster movies of the 1960s. Keith Park, historically absolutely crucial, makes only the shortest possible appearance. The Germans characters, such as Goering or Major Falke (a character loosely based on Galland) are cartoonised. Finally, one has to wonder if Susannah York's character had time-traveled to 1940 from 1969, judging by her hairstyle …
But few would argue that despite its age, this movie features the greatest aerial combat sequences filmed so far, mostly because all the aircraft (appearing in numbers!) and flying is genuine, which even by 1969 standards cost such a fortune that it probably will never be repeated. The flying sequences didn't initially suffice make the movie a blockbuster as it was hoped to be. But decades later, they still secure Battle of Britain's long-term popularity among the airminded. And through all the detail mentioned above, the convincing reproduction of the era makes the film grow on you.
I searched for some links about the film. There are disappointingly few. The usual: Wikipedia and IMDB. A couple of pages about the filming, here and here (that one shows "Proctuka", a Percival Proctor trainer that had been heavily modified in order to make it look like a German Stuka dive bomber, but despite all effort, did not finally appear in the film – incredible). But first and foremost, watch the movie – again.
Spitfires and Mosquitos – Roar of the Merlins
Spitfire Mk. I Instructional Movie
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey movie – Battle of Britain
"Combat Over the Channel"


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Thomas Bernard Foreman Jr., 55, had pulled his 1970 Oldsmobile to the right shoulder because of car trouble about 6: 40 p.m. at Watersville Road, near the Carroll County line.
He was struck while getting out of the car as it was sideswiped by an Isuzu Trooper driven by Theresa Dunn, 41, of Germantown, police said. Foreman was pronounced dead at the scene. I-70 was closed about an hour, causing a rush-hour backup of several miles, police said.


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Stolen Lives: crusader preventing suicide by promoting identity
Aaron Stuart is from the Ngarabunna tribe. He spends his days saving -- and sometimes failing to save -- the lives of suicidal people. Aboriginal identity is his best defence, writes Kate Horowitz.
Aaron Stuart is a 43-year-old Aboriginal man from the Ngarabunna tribe (renamed the Arabunna tribe for white lips) in South Australia. He is also an author and filmmaker, a former policeman, the chairman of the Arabunna Native Title and a member of the South Australian Aboriginal Advisory Council and South Australian Congress of Indigenous Nations. He now spends his days counselling and saving — and sometimes failing to save — the lives of suicidal Aboriginal people.
Stuart is often called to cut down people after they have hanged themselves. "I always administer CPR no matter how long they have been hanging," he says. "I cut down this tribal man in the back shed of a party. The people kept partying and this guy was dead. The police and ambulance took half an hour to arrive. But in fairness they get called a lot for suicide attempts.
"We gave CPR to this guy even though we knew he was dead and we got his pulse back three or four times. He lived for three hours in casualty — they brought him back but he finally died."
Stuart, who has lost family members to suicide, takes it to heart every time there is a suicide. "I feel guilty every time somebody in Port Augusta commits suicide, even if I've never met them. Even if they are white," he says, looking downwards at his feet with shame and sadness at the thought a person could still be alive today had he only known.
Stuart stands at 182 centimetres tall and weighs 130 kilograms. He wears a cowboy hat on his balding head; a thin black strip of hair lines his top lip, joining his nose to the crown of his lip. His physicality offers a warning, yet his voice is gentle and melodic, sometimes so quiet it is inaudible. He looks directly into your eyes with a dreamy gaze. His yarns and speech are poetic and hypnotic.
Earlier this year, Centacare Catholic Family Services in Port Augusta, where he works, published a children's book Stuart wrote called The Story of Yudum. Drawing on the spoken dreamtime stories his elders told him as a young boy, his book employs the traditional Aboriginal dreamtime mode to encourage distressed young Aborigines to talk about their pain to adults. The book also subtly seeks to arouse interest in young Aborigines about their culture.
His movie Yudum, also produced by Centacare Catholic Family Services, touches on universal issues, particularly to Aboriginal males. "It's about the search for who we are, about finding an identity," he says. The movie reflects common problems facing Aboriginal communities: suicide, grief, drug and alcohol abuse and domestic violence, as the main character Yudum searches for his place in the world.
His history in the police force and bigger-than-life presence is a clear advantage in his current job at the Centacare Catholic Family Services, where he works mostly with men and teenage boys trying to alleviate — as Crikey has investigated this week — a suicide endemic throughout Australia.
"Males have all these expectations forced upon them by society," says Stuart. "I teach them you can only be what you are capable of — that males are allowed to cry and talk about their feelings; it doesn't make you less of a man. In traditional society men were allowed to cry and they were allowed to be children with their aunties and uncles until that certain stage. There was an equality between males and females."
When Stuart became project manager at Centacare, he decided the only way to prevent suicide among Aboriginal males was to do it the "Blackfella way": "I said I would like to have a go at educating our Aboriginal people about suicide prevention and they said, how you going to do that? I said, well how did we do that before colonisation? We did it through artwork, story, song, dance and culture."
He now runs healing camps where he takes men and teenage boys back to the bush. "We take them back to land," he explains. "We actually tell them this is who you are and this is why you find it hard to concentrate in school –your cognitive process isn't dumber but our cognitive process is used to this way of teaching. We give them their identities back."
Aboriginal suicide is multiplying at an increasing rate. It is roughly four times greater than non-indigenous Australia. The victims on average are far younger — Aboriginal children as young as eight now hang themselves.
"Aboriginal people see death so many times. We go to a funeral every second week, here especially in communities; they see it so many times. The old are burying the young," Stuart explains. "You just lose track of who's died some times. Sometimes you get sick of crying."
Suicide and deaths by "unnatural causes" are so common that Aboriginal communities no longer differentiate between suicide, natural death and accidental death. Stuart claims they are all simply labelled "death".
"We see past whether it is a suicide or a terminal illness or a motor vehicle accident — we just see it as death," he says. "With the amount of deaths and how they die, Aboriginal people are just starting to think 'death'.
"When I get a call from a mother or an aunt that their kid is sad or lonely, they see that mental illness, or whatever, as a terminal illness — the thing before suicide, that loneliness or depression, as a terminal illness. When I get called in, it's like I have to stop a terminal illness."
Stuart speaks with the indifference of someone habitualised to death and suicide. He draws a red dot on the whiteboard representing the Aboriginal individual, pre-colonisation. He then draws circles that enclose the dot, and then each other, extending outwards. The circles represent knowledge the Aboriginal person once learnt in traditional times."These circles," Stuart points to the first few circles surrounding the dot like a schoolteacher teaching a class of small children, "this could just be knowledge on bush tucker, or how to figure out north, south, east and west, on lizards, the basic stuff." He draws a cross on one of the circles closer to the periphery: "This is where the elders would be.
"Unlike Western people that go to high school and then university and then maybe postgraduate study, our education, our 'infrastructure' was continuous. It never ended — you just kept going back and learning and learning –the circles never stop. You would learn the basics through song, dance, story, art and culture." He counts the five pillars of Aboriginal teachings with his fingers.
He draws bent lines across the map of Australia on the whiteboard, showing the way the infrastructure created a connected, functioning country and people, despite the multiplicity of tribes. He then wipes out the arrows with one quick movement of his hand showing where Aboriginal Australia is today.
One quick movement erases 50,000 years of infrastructure that dictated to the Aboriginal people how to live, their morality and ethics. It created ordered family life and communities, and how to deal with sadness or grief when someone died, known as "sorry business".
"My people were not just rich in culture; my people were scientists. And what I mean by that is we had mechanisms and infrastructure in place where we did our law and our custom. Everything about how we learn our education was through stories, song, culture, dance and art — it was all there," Stuart says. "When the white fella come and wants to do things a bit differently and takes our culture and takes our land and we lose our identity, our way of life and how to survive. Then when you get the dispossession, segregation and assimilation and lose that way of life.
"Sure, people say that happened way back, then get over it. Take away the infrastructure and you're left with the melting pot. The ingredients from the past have made Australia what it is today. "That happened back then but we are at the point where that melting pot is actually boiling and that's all cooked up and we are dealing with it — that's why I believe suicide is here and it's so high at this moment."
Stuart believes his ability to cope with the responsibility of his community stems from his upbringing, still strongly linked to his ancestral ties. He and his sisters were the first generation of his family born in a hospital, meaning his father and two grandfathers could take him back to the bush and teach him all about his culture. The evaporation of culture and infrastructure has left a generation in limbo with no coherent identity of its own and in a country where they feel they no longer belong.
Stuart describes his people: "They are actually hurting 'cause they can see they don't fit in. Or they can see and feel that emptiness that's a part of them from the beginning of when this country was taken. They can't put it into continuity, into those little square boxes, but they can feel it.
"Then it can be a simple domestic with their wife or with their loved ones that will tip them over the edge to make them commit suicide because they can see that there is nothing past this, whatever small thing, the domestic or this issue or what their dealing with now. They feel this emptiness …"
Stuart's job at Centacare is a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. It is his life. The many people he feels responsibility for include his distant relative Noonie — on suicide watch for the last eight years, since his 18-year-old son Aldren suicided by electrocuting himself at the town's power source. The once extroverted Noonie has become reclusive, depressed and smokes marijuana.
Aldren's 16-year-old cousin Paulie is now speaking of boredom, of wishing to be dead, of taking his own life. Paulie is in and out of the courts but according to Aaron Stuart: "He is a good boy. There are plenty of Paulies in this town."
Aaron Stuart, surprisingly, doesn't feel he carries the world on his shoulder. He goes back to country when things get too much, either by himself or he will take another healing camp with him. He understands he must always focus on the positive and the certain, not the negative and the unknown, to maintain his own sense of emotional wellbeing, so he can then keep helping others.
"You've just got to, you have no other choice. I know the sun will rise in the east and will set in the west," Stuart says, pointing firstly to the front of himself, then behind himself. "Something could happen during the day or night, and our lives will pass. But one sure thing is that the sun will rise in the morning."
*This is the final report in a four-part series on Aboriginal suicide rates. Kate Horowitz presented this work as part of masters assessment.
**For help or information visit beyondblue.org.au, call Lifeline on 131 114 or visit this page for a detailed list of support services
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This is a great piece of writing, Kate. Thank you.
Thanks for the series.
You get belonging from your history, culture and family. If your parents don't draw confidence from what went before, if they don't feel they belong, how can you?
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A very thoughtful and insightful piece.


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