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Jazz warrior who 'had that swing': RIP Don Albert
JUST me and my horn: baritone sax player and jazz writer, Don Albert. Photograph by Mbuzeni Zulu, courtesy Times Live.
THE INTERSTICES, RIFFS and possibilities of jazz, from this side of his baritone sax and that, were the central motivating energies of Don Albert, who gave South African jazz a voice in print, radio, television and the internet for over 50 years. He died on April 20, 2019 from pneumonia. He was 88.
Both Albert and the hated apartheid regime came of age in the late 1940s. And from the get-go, Albert was proactive in fighting the horrors of the racist ideology. He was the first white musician to play in Cape Town's District Six in 1949-50 before it was legal or acceptable to do so. Thirty years later, he came head to head with an apartheid law that forbade black artists from appearing on white 'liquor licensed premises'. It was here that he used his platforms in The Star, Drum Magazine and Polish-based journal Jazz Forum, to heighten general awareness of the situation. The apartheid heavies bruised his sense of safety by threatening arrest and putting his house under 24-hour surveillance. "In those days, if you did anything for black people, you were labelled a 'communist', and communism was banned," he commented on social media. But his indomitable spirit and fierce pen won the day: this law was rescinded in 1985.
In the 1960s, Albert formed the Don Albert Combo, also known briefly as The Don Albert Band, featuring vocalist Joy Evelyn, where he was intent on giving old chestnuts new jazz status, reinventing standards such as Hello Dolly, Fever, Cry Me a River and more. In this capacity, Albert proved himself adept in several reed instruments and vocals, and released a number of delightful LPs. The combo was deemed by critics at the time as "the mightiest little band" to come to town and it remained active until the early 2000s, bringing in such collaborators as Sipho 'Hotstix' Mabuzo on drums and Jack van Pol on keyboard, getting whatever gigs it could.
As a jazz writer, he wrote for a range of print publications, including the Tonight! section of The Star newspaper in South Africa, with which he was associated for a period of 12 years, from the time of its inception in 1976. And yet, Albert was not trained as a journalist. He was educated in the field by his colleagues and editors, including Roy Christie and Percy Baneshik and lovingly assisted in the messy art of writing by his wife Cheryl (nee Clabby). For many years, he ran a weekly Thursday jazz column on artslink.co.za, but he was also the South African correspondent for American jazz publication Downbeat, and Britain's Jazz Journal International, enjoying other reviewing gigs over the years, such as a regular CD review slot for the Financial Times. He also had an ongoing commitment for a five year period to the SABC's jazz tv programme, Jazz Studio. And radio was another platform to his knowledge and critical skills; he was a regular on 702 and Radio Today.
Jazz was his love and his lingo. He wrote about it in day-to-day parlance, but also on cruise ships and in festivals from France to Canada, South Africa to Finland. Jazz writer Gwen Ansell comments that his search for readers was genuine and though critical jazz coverage had existed in the historically Black press for some time, Albert's mission was to create a place for informed jazz writing in the so-called 'white' media of the time under apartheid. He was seconded onto jazz festival judging panels including the Old Mutual's Jazz Encounters and the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Jazz in 2001. Indeed, with the power and the savvy to make the careers of young jazz performers blossom into professionalism, he took pleasure in touting George Bernard Shaw's jibe: "Hell is full of musical amateurs" as one of his favourite quotes on social media.
The man who loved Duke Ellington's quip that "it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing", was a generous peer, a gentleman, a competent music photographer and one who knew the industry inside out, and loved every bit of it from an intelligent and aware perspective. In 2011, he was awarded the Outstanding Patron Award of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival. Born in Cape Town on October 30, 1930, Albert lost his wife in 1995 and his daughter, Dionne, in 2009. His beloved brother Edward passed away four years ago. He is survived by his son Blake, a Jersey-based hotelier, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. He was often visited by his Johannesburg-based grandson, Jarred Albert, in the last years of his life.
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Thank you. I saw him around but never spoke to him and didn't ever see him perform, I don't think, but I do know he deserved this obituary; he contributed a lot to jazz writing in SA. He was an institution.


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Q: Is there any method for converting String into Number? Javascript
I am a beginner, and I have a problem with 1 task;
let numbers='1.54,4.005,6,2.1,3.50';
I am trying to create an array where I will push these strings as numbers, to get array like this;
array=[1.54, 4.006, 6, 2, 1, 3.50];
I tried several methods; parseInt, numbers*1, Number(numbers). but it does not work.
Please assist.

A: You can split the string on commas to create an array, then use Array#map to convert each element. The unary plus operator, parseFloat, or the Number function can convert a string to a number.

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A: Split the string into an array of strings, then use Number on each item with
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On the Front Lines of Ukraine's War With Russia
New Lines tours the battle-scarred town of Avdiivka, in the Donbas, where Ukrainian soldiers watch their enemies attentively — and wait for more of them to arrive
Mattias CarlssonMattias Carlsson is an investigative reporter based in Stockholm, Sweden
Niclas HammarstromNiclas Hammarstrom is an award-winning photojournalist
Commander Ivan in the bombed out factories of Avdiivka promzona / Niclas Hammarstrom
We move quickly along the abandoned rail tracks just north of Donetsk. The soldier in the lead wears a snow-white uniform and waves that we should hurry. Fallen power lines run along the rails and a sign warns of mines. We walk nearly a mile and pass an abandoned and broken train stop. Suddenly, from an opening in the forest, we see on the horizon the worn gray high-rises inside what the enemy calls the Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR.
This is the part of Ukraine that has been occupied by so-called separatists and conventional Russian military units since the spring of 2014. The Ukrainian army is positioned down the embankment and into the forest. This is one of the front lines of a war that has lasted for eight years and may at any moment explode again as President Vladimir Putin's military forces continue to amass at Ukraine's doorstep from three directions: here, the borderland region of the country's industrial east; north from Belarus; and south from Russian-occupied Crimea.
In the forest, out of sight from the enemy's position, the Ukrainian soldiers maintain their base. Simple huts and earthen fortifications made of logs and plastic are dotted everywhere. Smoke wafts into the sky from a wood-burning field stove; on a tree trunk the Ukrainians have attached a mirror for shaving.
From the huts, a dizzying network of ditches extends to observation posts and trenches. Everything is dug by hand with shovels and picks. We jump into one of the trenches and walk its length straight out of the forest. On the way we encounter a patrol that comes back from its shooting range. Olga, 37, is a grenade launcher. She's greeted by happy shouts and hugs from her comrades. Today is her birthday, and this afternoon there will be a celebration in the bunker.
In a snow-covered field, where the down grows deeper the farther out we go, we find a shooting range of logs and sandbags. Jaroslav, 24, another soldier, sits scouting the field with a periscope, but he has to be careful: Anyone sticking their head out risks being shot by sniper fire from the DNR area, about a thousand yards ahead.
Olga, 37 with the ferret, Zjuzja and commander Oleksander in the underground bunker / Niclas Hammarstrom
"Now it has been calm, but provocations happen basically every day," Jaroslav says. He explains a common kind: The pro-Russian forces shoot randomly with a machine gun, waiting for the Ukrainians to return fire and give up their position. Then the snipers try to pick them off. Just last week, a Ukrainian soldier died that way around Luhansk, in the northern part of the front.
"You have to be on your guard at all times," says Oleksii, 30, another soldier in the shooting range. "When you are constantly in the combat zone, you get used to it and start to relax. But you cannot relax. The safety vest is heavy, but you have to wear it; the helmet is heavy and uncomfortable, but you have to wear it. And you want to stretch and look out, but you cannot."
Oleksii was once a television journalist, but now he's a press officer with the Ukrainian army. Like a lot of his compatriots, he gave up his profession to fight in the war; more of them are preparing to do the same if Russia invades again.
Oleksii's nickname is "Godzilla." It used to belong to his father, who fell in the intense battle at the height of the war, in 2015, in the village of Zaitseve.
Jaroslav interrupts Godzilla to tell us he's spotted through his periscope a truck and black jeep moving on the other side of the field. His company commander, Oleksander, takes a look. "We don't know what they're doing but it is something," he says, another indication of the enemy's increased mobilization in recent days.
Here at the front, the political situation in Kyiv, the threats emanating from Moscow and the frantic diplomacy in the West to stop another war don't matter. "We have our task and we carry it out," says Oleksander. "It's clear that we are in the first line [of Ukraine's defense] and will have to take the first and biggest blow." International anxiety, he adds, amounts to nothing unless other countries join the fight, and Oleksander knows they won't. Ukraine is on its own.
Ukrainian soldiers Oleksander and Jaroslav / Niclas Hammarstrom
At dusk, we return to the base. In the bunker Olga plays with the company's pet ferret, Zjuzja.
Before the war, Olga worked as a support teacher for deaf children. That was three years ago, before she joined her battalion, leaving two sons — 17 and 18 — behind. She sees them only a few times a year. One of them told her he wants to enlist himself.
Most of the houses along the village street in the old part of Avdiivka have been torn apart, the roofs of traditional small brick buildings collapsed long ago. Remaining walls are full of bullet holes. Once cultivated gardens have grown wild. The windows of one house that has remained standing have been nailed shut, and the outside is littered with sun-bleached teddy bears. The family that once lived here has long since fled.
Natalia, 57, has a disability pension. She's one of the few Avdiikans who stayed in their house. With the support of a Ukrainian aid organization, she's managed to replace the windows that shattered during previous fighting, though they may yet shatter again. Natalia remembers how scared she was when it started eight years ago. "We were at home and helicopters flew low over the house … to bomb the airport. It was terrible."
Natalia's neighbor's house suffered a direct hit as the family huddled in the basement. They survived but left Avdiivka.
Some distance away, Oksana, 49, is struggling with the crank that lifts the bucket of water out of a well. On a small cart she has a jug she fills. As recently as October, a grenade landed in her neighbor's garden and the explosion blew out Oksana's kitchen window. She lives alone. Her 16-year-old son, Dimitri, attends a school in a city farther away from the fighting. Her daughter, 25, has married and has her own family. Oksana's husband abandoned her and her children years ago.
Oksana Ovtjarenko, 49, outside her house in the old part of Avdiivka / Niclas Hammarstrom
During the day, she loads coal at the large coke factory outside Avdiivka and earns a monthly salary of 7,000 hryvnia, $247. Somehow it's enough for her and Dimitri.
The entire outer wall of Oksana's house is cracked and several of her windows have been replaced with plastic. In the simple kitchen, she fires the stove with charcoal, tree branches and shells from walnuts that she gathered from the abandoned gardens. "I live in such a way that what God gives, so it will be," she says. "I am a believer. Today I live, tomorrow I do not. Honestly I do not live, I just exist. I have no life. The young people are doing the right thing by leaving."
In May 2014, the war in Donetsk began, and Oksana recalls standing in the garden when the teacher from Dimitri's school called. "Come and get your son," the teacher said. "The tanks are on their way here." Dimitri was 8.
"All night we sat and waited for the tanks to come. But that day they never bombed. I actually do not even remember what day it was that it started."
She shows us down a dark staircase to her basement. The air is cold and damp. The lamp is broken, and she lights our path with her cell phone. "I was here with my son all that summer, we lived here in the basement." When the fighting was at its most ferocious, Oksana and Dimitri stood face to face with their backs to the doorframe, in case the roof caved in. She held a shovel in case she had to dig herself and her son out of rubble.
Oksana is tired of the war and angry about Ukraine's politicians.
"Those up there," she says, referring to Kyiv, "cannot agree on how to divide the country, and we send our children to war and die.
I'm not for anyone, although I live in Ukraine, and I love Ukraine. I do not understand politics, but I know one thing: Politicians do not send their own children to war. But should we suffer and die for them?"
Ljudmila, 73, comes out into the snow and shows off the remains of her son's house. The red brick wall protrudes from an ash heap: In 2017, five grenades landed right in the house. The entire house went up in flames. Grenades have ruined Ljudmila's life. A year earlier, in 2016, Ljudmila's husband had his leg blown off by one that landed near their property. "When I woke up I wondered where my husband was. I found him in the garden really broken, without clothes and full of shards." She and her son rushed him to the hospital, where surgeons amputated the damaged leg.
Ljudmila, 73, standing in the place in the garden where her husband lost his leg / Niclas Hammarstrom
In a bombed-out factory in the Promzona area of Avdiivka, the rubber for car tires was once manufactured. That's when the factory had a roof and its walls were not pocked by ammunition. A concrete block hangs in the last reinforcement bars and sways menacingly in the wind that blows through the facility, ushering in a whirlwind of snow.
From the rubber factory we descend into trenches to the Ukrainians' outermost position, just 100 yards from the DNR forces. Even nature testifies to the fighting. Bare and charred tree trunks have lost all their branches and stand like skeletons against a bleak gray sky.
Cmdr. Ivan, our escort, is 30 years old and has served in the war almost continuously since it began. "Now it's mostly calm," he says, "but when it's calm, we always think they're doing something bad. If it's totally quiet, it's a little nervous." He prefers it when they shoot, as they did daily in September and October.
We stop at an observation point on the road. Dennis, 20, peers out of his underground cave with his periscope. "It is a very difficult job for the soldiers, they are completely isolated from society and spend day after day and month after month here scouting out and waiting for someone to come," says Ivan.
We continue down the trench and emerge on a small road that goes through an abandoned and shattered area with summer cottages. From the main post, right across from the enemy, the Ukrainians monitor activity with video surveillance. Anton, another grenade launcher, cooks solyanka soup on a wood stove for his fellow soldiers. In gratitude, they relieve him of the night shift.
The soldiers sleep underground, and when it rains everything turns to mud. Ivan compares it to World War I. "We have trenches, they have trenches, and between the trenches there are minefields," he says, stirring the soup. "Neither their side nor ours cross the positions because whatever you do will cost a lot of blood."
Back home in southern Ukraine, Ivan's wife is expecting their third child. "My family is also a big responsibility, one of my sons has autism and my children need me, but I am still here. I see my family a total of two months a year."
"How will it end?" we ask.
"I don't know what's going on in Putin's head," Ivan answers. "But we understand that [another invasion] can happen, and we understand that we cannot defend ourselves here forever."
He is cleareyed about Ukraine's prospects against Russia, admitting that he and his men can only "slow them down for a while."
"History teaches us that people like Putin do everything as if the world were theirs," Ivan says. "So up to the point when the whole world stops him, he can continue, as did Hitler."
This dispatch is a collaboration between New Lines and Swedish newspaper Expressen.
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The Feminine in Crime Fiction
With the end of January looming and the fear of unfulfilled resolutions increasing at a break-neck pace, I find pride in folding the leaves of my fourth novel of the year. I add it to the stack atop the bureau in my dismally untidy bedroom, and my obvious literary passion is clear - four spines, four crimes. I have always been a reader, some years more so than others. While I can't remember ever choosing to spend my time within the pages of a biographer, I have time and time again resorted to another detective thriller - a genre I know will obsessively captivate and has yet to disappoint. Growing up, my mother religiously tuned into embarrassingly produced re-enactment dramas on the Crime Network, or spent her evenings as a silent witness to BBC's detective dramas and the goings on in the dangerous village of Midsomer. My father always used to joke - as fathers do, that her fascination in these stories was a research project on how to get rid of him. I suppose this is how I became hooked on whodunnits, safely behind the electric fence of my Johannesburg home, salivating for the forensic discovery that breaks the case.
Although I am wholly aware and respectful of the fact that gender is a constructed and in most cases exclusionary form of human categorisation, this article focuses on the representations of the male and female binary. Unsurprisingly there has been little mention of those who do not confine themselves to gender in the Crime Fiction canon, it is due to this that I choose to focus on the role of the women within the genre and the female reader's relationship to crime novels. Every woman in my family reads, and more often than not, that which she reads is crime fiction (in between the new Julian Barnes and Ian MacEwan, of course). The men in my family have mostly attempted to skim the surface of the latest Bill Bryson or sports-star autobiography, rarely reaching the final word. There are many theories postulating why women read more; cognitive psychology asserts that because women experience greater empathy as a result of our more "sensitive mirror neurons" they are more likely to enjoy fiction. Another theory is that as children, girls are better able to concentrate and thus are more likely to engage with a novel from a young age. Whichever theory, it is statistically accepted that women read more books than men - 80% more, according to Sophie Gilbert, writer for The Atlantic. So if we assume this to be true, and we consider the fact that crime fiction has in the last few years exploded into common favour and is now the UK's biggest selling genre, then one could assume that we women, bloody love reading about crime.
Agatha Christie has for most of the last century been considered the doyenne of crime; incidentally, she has also been crowned the bestselling author of all time. Her stories have been circulated amongst every crime-hungry family and their translations have reached the furthest and darkest crannies of the globe. While Christie will no doubt hold onto her immortal fame, the surge of brilliant female writers infiltrating the crime market certainly does make way for a few more seats at Christie's table. Christies novels, however do question the popularity of the male detective. Her two protagonists, Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, present two disparate takes on the crime fighting hero or heroine. Marple is the busy-bodied community lady, respected by the public and abhorred by the police. She inevitably solves the crime by discreetly forming relationships with a relative or friend of the victim. With knitting under her arm, her beady eye misses nothing and her elderly innocence and affability and acute understanding of human nature always saves the day. The murders Marple investigates are most commonly verging on sterility in the comfort of idyllic towns and vicarages. Her characters include rural society ladies and gentlemen or the local town Magistrate, whose personal relationships and quarrels form the grit of the story. Miss Marple usually investigates undetected as she quietly gathers clues which ultimately complete the jigsaw of the murder. The final elusive piece is usually placed from the comfort of an armchair without a scene in the company of all those involved. She is cunning, but due to her femininity and innocence, approaches her cases with a mathematical grace and presents her findings without the arrogance or triumph that Christie's London based private detective, Hercule Poirot.
Former Belgian Police Inspector Hercule Poirot is a private detective whose moustache and wit have propelled him to a fame in which his character would no doubt revel. He is a man of innate sophistication and his only fear is that his image may be dishevelled, or he be presented with an asymmetrical pair of eggs for breakfast or worse still, that his notoriety be unknown to his contemporaries. His victims include movie stars or characters whose status would be worthy of his investigation. He is always accompanied by his trusting companion, Captain Hastings - a social climbing and, in most situations, useless henchman. The ultimate solving of the case is done with the theatrical extravagance of his character, walking the reader through the avenues of his mind, revealing his clues with an arrogance for which only somebody of his gender could be appreciated or forgiven. A list of Christie's most famous novels in The Guardian suggest that Poirot is her favoured protagonist. While it frustrates me to admit, I share this judgement.
Why is it that Miss Marple's stories seem to be meekly received? Is it because her murders are most often revolved around a scene of idealised village life, or is it because her character is less representative of the heroism that we yearn for under this genre. The reality of the latter then speaks to the assumption that it is the described femininity and gentility of her character that allows for the lacking assertion of her brilliance. Like Poirot, her deductions and resolutions display an intelligent and problem-solving proficiency; however, it is the way in which she shrewdly expresses her findings which lack a certain dangerous drama.
She rarely gets in harm's way and when the case is closed she is presumed to be enjoying her gentle, female, Victorian existence without the pay and thanks of her role in the solving of the crime. Poirot, on the other hand, adds each case to his armour of high-profile cases in his cabinet of fame. She is also an unmarried woman, whose romance is never explored in the novels and thus her purity is heightened by the fact that she clearly lacks the distraction of sex. Hercule's sexuality, on the other hand, is often mentioned with his obvious attraction to and attention of the women with whom he deals. He is granted a love interest, while Marple merely teas with the ladies of the parish. Whether or not this reflects the times in which Christie wrote, it does show that sexuality is a very rarely addressed theme from the perspective of the female character, and remains for the most part the exclusive domain of a man. Poirot's notoriety and brilliance is seen to be an attractive characteristic to the females he encounters, while Marple's meddling ways mostly reward her with frustration from the men who are supposed to be doing the digging. It is her unacknowledged role from the authorities, which, in my opinion, adds to her lack of fame - the fame she is restricted from experiencing. The heroism of her role is ignored.
J.K Rowling (Robert Galbraith), Kate Atkinson, PD James, Ruth Rendell and many other female writers of the genre have an interesting thing in common: their famous protagonists are all men and the majority of their victims are women. One must ask whether it is the immortal trope of the heroic male that has infiltrated the medium, or is it a choice merely made as a means to secure a broader readership? Or, most controversially, is it the fact that, because men are most commonly attributed with brilliance, it is an easier way to reward a character with such - without having to delve too deeply into the emotional and empathetic barriers by which women are perceived to be tainted? Is it not fascinating, and irritatingly ironic, that as a woman who reads a fair number of crime fiction novels, the characters which I hold in my memory are the stoic and heroic males, the damaged but innately good-hearted problem solvers of evil doings? What my memory lacks, however, is a female protagonist who is able to channel her painful past into the path of good and not become too overwhelmed with the responsibility of her work.
The female detective is almost always too empathetic and unable to remove herself from the humanity of the case — something her male counterparts seem flawlessly to achieve. She is no-doubt brilliant in her deductions, but there is always the constant presence of her morality and femininity. She is complicated, in a way with which the female reader would identify, but has to break down the barriers of her perceived lack of ability in the world of crime-fighting. Maybe it is this aspect of the female character that is less desirable to the writer and reader alike; we would prefer the hero to be of the sort who can tackle the villain physically and mentally without the complications of his gender. With all of this said, my fifth novel is awaiting me. Another ice-cold murder to warm my mind of sugar and spice.
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The leak from Android Authority suggests this phone will ship with a 6-inch Full HD+ (2160×1080) display, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 636, 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage, 16MP and 5MP rear cameras, a 13MP front camera with flash, and a 3600mAh battery. HTC will use Sense UI based on Android Oreo or Android P.
It should have a fingerprint scanner; however, the location is unknown. HTC would likely put the sensor on the back of the U12 Life since its display is stretched to fill the phone's front.
Put it against last year's model, and the U12 Life seems like a dramatic improvement. The display is larger and sharper, and just about every other area is stronger as well. HTC might secure sales if it prices the U12 Life against Motorola's Moto G6 and HMD Global's Nokia 6.
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by Michelle Henderson
October 16, 2019, 6:01 am Updated: October 21, 2019, 8:59 am
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Shona MacMillan (left) and Mira Byrne launch the Luach Festival in Lewis to take place on the island next year. Picture by Sandy McCook.
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A new Gaelic festival in the Western Isles was announced at the Mod yesterday.
The two-day event in Stornoway will be called Luach – which means value – and is being organised by local community groups to celebrate the language, culture and heritage of the islands.
The festival will take place on April 3 and 4 next year.
Shona Macmillan, Gaelic development officer at Galston Estate Trust said: "We are delighted to be involved in Luach. It will give us an opportunity to co-operate with other Gaelic groups in offering events suitable for all ages in communities throughout the island that value our language, our culture and our heritage over the course of two days in the springtime.
"I think its hugely important. I work as a Gaelic Development officer in a rural setting in the Galston Estate and as part of that job this fits in perfectly with it to work, not only in the district itself, but also with other community groups, trusts and with historical societies which are hugely important in Gaelic work and putting on events that will bring in people about the history and heritage of Gaelic."
Organisations including Bord na Gaidhlig, the Scottish Government and the Western Isles Council have already pledged their support behind the event alongside a number of community organisations including Galston Estate Trust and e-Sgoil.
Angus Maclennan from e-Sgoil said: "This is a great opportunity for groups that are trying to develop Gaelic to work together in order to improve matters."
Meanwhile, fellow Gaelic development officer Mira Byrne said: "I think there was awareness that there are loads of different groups working with Gaelic but there is not much happening to bring them together. I think the idea behind it all is to do something that creates the profile of Gaelic in the islands.
"I am hoping that it will grow from year to year and we can widen it out throughout the whole of the islands but I also just hope there will be a sense that there is genuine value in this language – let's speak it and use it."
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"At the time, you're in this bubble, you're earning thousands a week, people are loving you, you're signing autographs right, left and centre." - RTÉ Radio 1 Highlights
"At the time, you're in this bubble, you're earning thousands a week, people are loving you, you're signing autographs right, left and centre."
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Footballer Keith Treacy"At the time, you're in this bubble, you're earning thousands a week, people are loving you, you're signing autographs right, left and centre."
As heard on The Ryan Tubridy Show August 29, 2019
By the time Dubliner Keith Treacy had done his Junior Cert, he'd already had interest from numerous football clubs in Britain and he and his parents had decided on Blackburn Rovers. The day before he was going away, he had a party in Fairview to send him off. He was 15.
"We swiftly ended up down in the off licence and over in the park, having our own little party. That was my first run-in with alcohol."
Keith joined Ryan Tubridy in studio on Thursday to talk about how alcohol derailed his promising career as a professional footballer. The accommodation in Blackburn was close to the training pitches, but the teenage Keith was a long way from home. He spent the first few months feeling homesick and then he started sneaking out to go to the pubs.
"There were thirty-two players in sixteen rooms in a digs that was just off the pitches. So we had Mick and Mary who were the house parents, but, like I say, there were thirty-two players there, so it was quite easy to slip out the back door and not be noticed for a while."
His career was on an upward curve at Blackburn. At 17, he owned his house and the Range Rover parked outside, even though he didn't have a licence to drive it. But Ryan wanted to know how Keith could do so much drinking and still play football.
"It was quite easy, I think because you're so young and so fit at the time, you can sort of get away with it… At 19,20, being super-fit, you could hide the fact that you've had a couple of pints the night before… Or you could even just throw in a back injury, a hamstring tear, go in with the physios for the day and you wouldn't even have to see the managers."
Despite his heavy drinking, Keith was called up to the Republic of Ireland squad in 2011, for a friendly against Argentina, an accomplishment he remains proud of (even though he was kicked out of a hotel room by his idol, Damien Duff). At this stage, the drinking wasn't going unnoticed and several clubs tried to get him some help, but he didn't think he had a problem.
"At the time, you're in this bubble, you're earning thousands a week, people are loving you, you're signing autographs right, left and centre. And in my head, I was only having a couple of pints here and there."
It took quite a while and a lot of help and support from his wife, Leanne, to get Keith to admit he had a problem and then to start to do something about it.
"I've been through nearly four years of therapy and me and my wife have gone through every little thing to try and push on, that's why we are where we are today."
You can hear Keith's full chat with Ryan here.
If you've been affected by depression or addiction issues help is available:
You can call The Samaritans on 116 123 or log onto www.samaritans.ie
Or Alcoholics Anonymous on 01 842 0700 or log onto www.alcoholicsanonymous.ie
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Prior to joining McAllister & Quinn, Dr. Venable was Coordinator for Research Development Services at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where she provided individualized research and proposal development assistance to faculty; assisted in the development and submission of high priority institutional grant proposals; and, created and organized numerous grant training programs that significantly improved the University's return on investment.
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By nomogoodnames, March 7, 2011 in Free-For-All
Psychotic Ninja
Gogglehead
So there's this guy who comes once a few months, to pick up a bunch of clothes. Like $250 worth of clothes. However, he only pays for part of it, and only picks up part of it. Making a huge ass mess of clothes he still needs to pick up, and pay for, going back and forth on this dance. it's gotten so frustrating and confusing Both the manager, and I, are very tired of the whole thing. She left a note saying that he needs to pay for everything.
My manager looked through the whole place, even at the security footage, and says the total is $250. He comes in tonight, we go back and forth on the whole thing, on the amount he owes. He claims he owes half of that because he doesn't have to pay for his fiancee clothes. Even though she's never come here. Even though he's always picked up part of her's. Even though he's here to pick up and pay for the rest.
"We don't call them loot boxes", they're 'surprise mechanics'" - EA
Blightmare
I love how many people try to criticize Overwatch by calling it Overpriced, especially since it's done most often in the comments section of a youtube video of gameplay of a game currently priced at 60 dollars. You know, 20 dollars MORE than Overwatch.
Hate the game if you want, I'm not bothered by that. Same goes for any game really. But if you're gonna do it publicly, at least TRY not to look like you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You could, maybe, point out the numerous flaws the game has such as the Season 3 matchmaking system separating players that have been playing and winning/losing together since there was a ranking system because the new algorithm decided you didn't deserve your rank, or the community's inability to understand that any hero can be viable if you actually work with them instead of crying in team chat like a baby who just had their candy stolen when someone wants to try a different composition other than the meta which generally doesn't work in solo queue anyways because it's built around 6 stack groups with heavy coordination. But nope. You take the easiest fact to check and fuck it up. G-fucking-G.
Oh what am I even doing? Catchy rewording beats out making sense every time.
Retired Forum Moderator
For me, I'm so used to TF2 being free, and part of me kinda expected arena shooters like Overwatch was going to be free too. Basically, muscle memory got the better of me.
Well no wonder so many people hate Rotten Tomatoes. It would seem that "Critics" can go there and barf out shitty opinions filled with the most insulting and vile words they can come up with and not have to worry about any consequences for being a total asshole to creators. Pretty convenient. Hell half of them aren't even proper reviews, and instead more like smear pieces aimed at the creators' character rather than the movie.
That being said at least that site has user reviews and I take intense delight when I see people calling out critics for being pieces of shit.
I've gotten to the point where the lower the Rotten Tomatoes score is, the more likely I am to watch it because every time I do I usually enjoy the movie. Sure almost none of them are cinema masterpieces and some are pretty obviously low budget but still enjoyable for what they are. And if a critic can't even acknowledge that then what good are they? These are people who are employed to do this and random users on steam write astronomically better reviews than these jokes.
I haven't even seen the movie they're panning but their wording is infuriating because they're basically implying that if I do see the movie and enjoy it then I'm braindead. Like, fuck you, maybe you're the one who's braindead if you can't even accept that other people might like something you don't without being a total waste of protein about it.
Heliocentrical
Isn't Rotten Tomatoes like the Metacritic of Movies? I would hardly call people that use those sites legitimate critics.
I consider myself to be a critic more than a gamer or moviegoer. I like games and movies I consider to be good but don't enjoy the medium for the medium's sake. I find this distinction important and I don't think you can legitimately call me a gamer/moviegoer because of it. Gamers/moviegoers love whatever comes their way whereas I don't. If I watch a game/film I consider to be bad/mediocre then I've wasted my time which could've otherwise be spent on something worthwhile.
I also hate the self indulgent culture surrounding those mediums but that's a topic for another day.
I'm not saying I started the fire. But I most certain poured gasoline on it.
Rotten Tomatoes has a section separated from user reviews that people employed as reviewers for magazines/websites can post theirs, and that's the score that usually gets displayed when you look up a movie. For example if you look up the Final Fantasy XV movie it'll show a RT score of 13% but if you go to the site itself that's from the 15 critics that do that as a job. The actual user rating from every day is about 72%.
I'd say you're more of a critical person when it comes to these mediums than an actual critic(weird saying that considering the origin of the word "critic"), which I don't have a problem with at all. To me a critic should be able to recognize and convey both objectivity and subjectivity, even in the presence of overwhelming like or dislike. Their aim should be to help others decide if something is worth their time before they devote it, and the only way to do that is to convey as much about not only their personal experience but the actual movie/game/thing as they can. Going into the review and seeing someone who's apparently a reviewer for the New York times suggest that I may be brain addled should I go see the movie and enjoy it is NOT what a critic should be doing. That's the kind of thing I expect to see my overly opinionated person-I-went-to-school-with-some-time-in-the-past post on facebook the exceedingly few times I actually go there, not from someone I'm expecting to help me decide if the movie might be something I'd want to see.
Jeb_CC
Talking to a bunch of teenagers who don't understand tech stuff.
"Why isn't my mic working?"
"Is it your internet?"
"My internet is at full."
Wtf is that supposed to mean? The dumb fucks. XD Frustrates me to no end, especially as they're acting like they know what they're doing but they're actually just the epitome of ignorance.
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The modem is out of sync with the DSLAM
How can you possibly provide fast and efficient technical support service when the systems you use run achingly slow and sometimes lock you out? Britain's telecommunication infrastructure is ass.
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Shit like this that's on steam
I mean just look at the description:
Before you buy:
-THIS GAME IS HARD
The first level is easy to help you learn how to play the game, after that the game starts getting harder and harder
-This game has no key rebinding
-The graphics are set on High quality, you can't change them except for the resolution. Lowering the graphics quality is against RyuVsCloud policy, either play the game the way it's meant to be played or don't play it at all.
Are they trying to piss off as many people as possible while shooting themselves in the foot?
There's two reviews, one's a joke. The other says the controls are shit and the game's shit.
Selfsurprise
I honestly think most of this stuff has become an artistic discipline in Youtuber baiting nihilism. Wilfully sub-par games on Steam are almost a medium in-of-themselves, distinct from traditional games and more akin to a kind of cultural terrorism. I find it difficult to not be impressed by the bloody-minded and unperturbed gall of their developers - either through impressively deliberate ignorance or out of majestically genocidal loathing towards everything beautiful and worthwhile in this world, or some hitherto unnamed assemblage of both mindsets.
This made my day Jeb, thank you.
For the sake of fairness though, I've accused my computer of far less reasonable things when my internet goes down.
When close friends speak ill of close friends
they pass their abuse from ear to ear
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even now, when prayers are no longer prayed.
What sounds like violent coughing
turns out to be laughter.
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It's against their policy??? What the fuck? Never have I seen a company so egotistical that they would basically say; "lol Only the people with good computers can play our game." Do they know anything about selling games?
XD And I'm glad I made your day SelfSurprise. But the problem wasn't even severe, the chick just couldn't get her Discord to detect her mic and there were probably numerous ways to test and troubleshoot it but she was just sitting there complaining about it and not doing a damn thing.
*sigh* Just one of those moments where I wish I could reach through the computer monitor to both strangle her and fix it for her.
Kill two birds with one stone, so to speak...
longliveprose
I want to kick the person who said "if you don't try, you'll never succeed" in the dick. So far I've tried a lot, and maybe once succeeded in doing what I set out to do. In fact, most of the time, trying is why I fail in the first place. It's like I'm given a machine that prints money, but explodes if I press a button, and I go and press every button on the machine. Every computer I own, I break on my own, I'm a grade B student at the best of times, and I barely manage to be lineable. Am I one of God's punching bags? Given enough intelligence to do things, buh not enough to do anything right?
This random YouTuber is getting laid with random hot dudes, and is basically the worst person in existence. Why? Just watch the free video.
Red and yellow do go together.
Vapymid
Well, another person said this:
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Maybe that'll help.
Want headaches? Work retail.
Customer comes in for a redo (which are free unless they're past a certain date), employee agrees without checking the last drop off date. Manager double checks, last drop off date was two years ago, far too late for a free redo. So she changes the price.
Guy comes in today, we go back and forth, I tell him all the information I know (which is new price, and for reasons I didn't know at the time, the price changed). He tells me his receipt/ticket says otherwise, that redo should be free. The manager gets involved, via phone, aaaand I'm right, he's wrong, he has to pay the new price. Also, while he's yelling at her, I'm dealing with other customers and there's another on his bluetooth earpiece, and because of that, the two customers are in a yelling contest so they can hear the other person on the phone. (At this point I had to hold back laughter from the craziness).
Eventually the customer agrees to pay the new price, and he's rambling things to/at me, and before he leaves he looks at his clothes, sees one is damaged, and of course claims we caused that.
Oh and good luck dealing with cranky old codgers, especially when you're already pissed off.
I've always hated how people treat retail workers, fast food workers, et c. I know one of those horrid customer types and it pisses me off whenever they do that shit. I understand why some of you might not have had the best day tha day, which is more than I can say for an unfortunate number of people. I sympathise with you, man.
Zaraki
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"FUCK YOU REALITY!!YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT!!!"
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I sympathise with those who will find this news extremely frustrating, but I'm honestly not in the least bit surprised. It hardly matters that a lot of the alleged aspects of Valves "office culture" are anecdotal, the public perception that the company is hovering uneasily between half-conceived projects has already set sail. The fact that they've attained near-meme status among the internets more snarky opinionators is practically a testament to their enigmatic conduct, usually developers have to do something more bleedingly obvious and wilfully stupid before becoming the equivalent of Konami.
After seeing so many damn articles on; "HL3 confirmed" "HL3 not confirmed" I'm just not trusting anything anymore. XD If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't. It's not the end of the world if HL3 isn't made or doesn't exist.
This and words like "supposedly" followed by your source (like 'he supposedly works at VALVe') throws all credibility out of the window for me.
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Developed by Inspired Games, the Football Cash Pots slot machine brings together the best players in the universe to play a great game. Bettors can follow the event directly from their screens while celebrating victory with their favorite team. Several elements are integrated to boost your personal winnings. This slot machine features 5 x 3 reels and 10 paylines. Winnings come from the accumulation of identical symbols. In addition to these, there is also the Cash Collector mode.
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There are several strong symbols to line up in an attempt to increase your winnings when playing on Inspired Games' Football Cash Pots slot machine. These include the ball, token, cleats, whistle and various cups. They activate winnings from 3, 4 or 5 identical, lined up symbols. The most important thing is that you can activate one of the bonuses present in the game, the Cash Collector, to increase your winnings. To do this, the player must find 6 or more soccer ball symbols on the screen and a bonus symbol on the last reel in order to activate the bonus mode.
During the Cash Collector mode, all positions that do not contain any footballs or cages will again benefit from 5 free spins. As soon as the re-spins are completed, all winnings on the bonus symbols will be paid out. The value displayed on each symbol will be multiplied by the number of soccer cages. This type of slot machine is universal, i.e. it can be played by all adults, whether or not they are passionate about soccer. Moreover, Football Cash Pots allow bettors to directly feel the atmosphere of the fans present during an important match. It can be tested free of charge on casino sites. Note that its RTP is 96.5%.
The other points to know in order to play correctly at Football Cash Pots
To play the Football Cash Pots slot machine, the player must visit a site dedicated to the game. It is accessible free of charge and without downloading in demo mode on his usual browser. For more sensations and comfort, the player has the right to activate the full screen mode. Among its main features are its 5 reels and 10 paylines. This slot machine is also available on other mobile or tablet platforms. Simply visit the game's website to test it in demo mode. Unfortunately, this type of game does not have a progressive jackpot and free spins.
The stakes for playing Football Cash Pots range from €0.10 to €0.60. The symbols available during the bet are the Scatter and Wild symbols. All in all, the Football Cash Pots slot machine immerses the player in the world of a real soccer match. The game has some interesting features and exceptional winnings despite the fact that it has little in the way of bonuses. Its graphics and sound effects perfectly mimic the atmosphere of a crowded soccer stadium.
Despite all these qualities, Inspired Gaming's Football Cash Pots Slot has made a bit of a splash when it comes to visuals. The overall look of the game is outstanding, even though the design presents an approach that is a little too simple for online casino gaming enthusiasts. Otherwise, the activation of certain bonuses such as the Cash Collector mode allows the player to enjoy big rewards of up to $250,000.
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From the past "Tomorrow's Rally"
The Rally is Tommorow! 9/20/02 3pm.
Given the apathy I'm starting to see around here and over at FBA, I'm really depressed. Only a few people really seem to give a crap. I think we're doomed to a slow death.
Someone tell me I'm wrong.
The Big difference is that O&A are still on the air, doing their show.. The apathy is coming from the fact that they will most likely be back on XM next friday.


I have spent the last 6 months checking out and shooting many bows from many manufacturers. It has been a bow season of much change.
The Hoyt Carbon Element is a cool looking bow that I had been anxious to shoot. I have owned a carbon road bicycle for several years and was hoping the Hoyt Carbon bow would give me the same advantages as did my carbon bike.
I put a drop away rest, a Sims vibration dampener, a string loop on the Carbon Element, and then grabbed a few Gold Tip arrows. I checked the draw weight, and found it to be 65 lbs. The bow weighs 3.6 lbs, and I could feel that it was light, that low weight was noticable. The bow is equipped with the Fuel Cam, and the XTS Pro Arc limbs, the same cam and limbs that are found on the Rampage XT, and the CRX bows.
-The bow felt light, even though it is only slightly lighter than the Rampage line, I could feel a difference.
-The draw back was typically of a Hoyt, steady all the way back into the valley, with a distinct end! There is a little extra room at the end of the draw but not much. I like the draw cycle.
-On the shot the bow felt like Carbon. Carbon really obsorbs vibration well. This bow did that, I could feel the deadness in my hand.
-The bow was accuarate and easy to hold on target, much like the Rampage XT and the CRX 32.
When I was all done shooting and thinking, I put the bow back on the shelf and was happy to be able to shoot such a high end, well built, and cool bow. Would I buy this bow with an almost $1200 price tag? I do not think so. The Hoyt Carbon Element is nice that is for sure, but it just does not give me an advantage over the Rampage XT, or the CRX. It shoots the same speed, shoots the same pattern, and feels almost the same in my hand.
If I had the bow in my closet I think I would pick it up and use it, but I would be just as happy picking up a 500-800 dollar bow, and really would have all the same advantages.
-This bow does not give me any real advantages over lower model bows, same speed, same accuracy.
-It is still just too much money.
I would go with the bow that has local knowledge and service. You will be in need of a tune up within 1-2 hundred shots.
Outside of that factor, I would go with the Hoyt. While solving CAM LEAN is intriguing to me, I cannot see how you can get more accurate than the Hoyt.


Naspers will not make publicly available the report on an investigation into alleged payments by MultiChoice to Gupta-owned channel ANN7, shareholders heard on Friday.
Earlier this year MultiChoice had a briefing following the probe, indicating that no irregular payments were made to ANN7. This probe was launched following revelations in the Gupta-leaked emails that Naspers's video entertainment subsidiary MultiChoice made payments to ANN7, media reported.
At the annual general meeting on Friday, a shareholder inquired whether Naspers would release the report, and asked chairperson Koos Bekker what his and the company's stance are on corporate governance.
Group general counsel of Naspers, David Tudor, who answered the question relating to MultiChoice assured that the investigation by the audit and risk committee was "extremely detailed and wide-ranging", especially given significant time pressures.
As for the publication of the report, Tudor said that it is "privileged and confidential" and Naspers intends to maintain that privilege.
On corporate governance, Bekker said that the company fully supports the King IV code.
"Our commitment to King IV is not conditional," he told shareholders.
Bekker admitted that the company may have "fallen behind" in one respect last year regarding the disclosure of remuneration. "The people who criticised us last year are correct," he said. Bekker assured that the company is working on improving disclosure and said Naspers respects that shareholders have a legitimate right to ask questions.
He explained that in business you need to play by the rules, but you also need to play effectively to beat the competition, and it is tricky to do both at the same time. When it comes to disclosure, Bekker said that businesses need to make sure that they do not give away "crucial information" which may affect competitiveness - which is why it is important to strike the right balance.


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Abraham Crum Shortridge
Frequently referred to as Abram C. Shortridge and Abram Shortridge
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Theodore Clement Steele, American, 1847–1926
76.24 cm x 101.6 cm | 30 in x 40 in
Framed: 137.16 cm x 111.76 cm x 8.89 cm | 54 in x 44 in x 3 1/2 in
Signed and dated lower right, T.C. Steele | 1906
Collection of Indianapolis Public Schools, on loan to Indiana State Museum
Abraham Crum Shortridge, (1833 – 1919), known as the "Father of Indianapolis Schools" was an important and progressive American educator and served as superintendent of the Indianapolis Public Schools (1863-1874). He also became the second president of Purdue University (1874-1875), which saw the matriculation of Purdue's first students and awarded the first degree to a Purdue graduate. The second year, the university admitted its first female students and hired its first female instructor.
Shortridge was also instrumental in establishing the Indianapolis Public Library, Teachers Training School and under his leadership Indianapolis Public Schools opened to African-American children.¹
Mary Alice Rann (1855 – 1914) was the first African-American student to graduate from Indianapolis High School, (named Shortridge in 1898). The school had 16 students of color by that time. Upon graduation in 1876, she attended Teachers College of Indianapolis, which became part of Butler University's education department in 1930. After college, she established her career as an educator, and returned to the Indianapolis Public School where she taught until her retirement.
Charity Dye (1870 – 1935), known for her activism for female suffrage and for peace, was a graduate of Teachers Training School (Normal School) and became an educator in the Indianapolis Public Schools for 37 years, distinguishing herself as an English teacher at Shortridge.¹ Eli Lilly, grandson of founder of Eli Lilly & Company (Pharmaceuticals) and president of Eli Lilly and Company from 1932 – 1948, was a Shortridge graduate and listed Charity Dye as his favorite teacher.
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May Wright Sewall (1844 – 1920) was an American educator and courageous reformer best known for her work and advocacy of women's suffrage. She founded with a small group of women the Indianapolis Woman's Club which encouraged a "liberal exchange of thoughts". In 1888 she encouraged the Indianapolis Women's Club to consider erecting a building to serve as a meeting place for the club and other literary, artistic, and social organizations in the city. This led to establishing the Indianapolis Propylaeum. She was a charter member of the Art Association of Indianapolis and the Herron Art Institute. May Wright Sewall taught German and English literature at Indianapolis High School from 1872 – 1880 (named Shortridge in 1898).
Graduates of the Teachers Training School. Charity Dye is in second row, second from left.
During Abram Shortridge's eleven years as superintendent (1863 – 1874), the school system grew from 900 to 10,000 students and employed many female teachers. African American teacher Moses Broyles helped integrate the Indianapolis High School.
African-American Baptist minister Moses Broyles (c1826 – 1882), born a slave near Centerville, Maryland, sold to a master in Kentucky came to Indiana after his emancipation in 1851, to attend Eleutherian College in Jefferson College (later Craven Institute) from 1854 – 1857 (he was denied admissions to Hanover College). Broyles left college and moved to Indianapolis in 1857 to teach at one of the city's first schools for African-American children. The city provided a building in the 4th ward for the subscription school, funded by student tuition or subscriptions, in response to school superintendent Abram C. Shortridge's plea for education for African Americans in the city.¹
Indianapolis High School was founded in 1864 in two rooms of a grade school. It was the first high school in Indianapolis, and the first free high school in the state of Indiana. The school opened in the old Fourth Ward School on the corner of Vermont and New Jersey Streets. In 1898 the school was renamed Shortridge High School in honor of Abraham C. Shortridge.
Abraham Shortridge proposed the organization of a high school for Indianapolis, but he reported to the board that it would take a year to bring even the most advanced pupils up to the level of high school work. Twenty-eight students, selected by examination, spent a year in preparation and then started actual high school work in the fall of 1865. They were taught by William A. Bell, principal, and one assistant, in two rooms of a ward schoolhouse (old Fourth Ward School) at Vermont and New Jersey streets. The school moved the following year (1866 – 1870) to the Second Presbyterian Church (once the pulpit for Henry Ward Beecher) on the northwest corner of Market Street and the Circle. Five of them graduated in 1869. Their diplomas read "Ad Astra per Aspera" – to the stars through difficulties.³
Indianapolis High School, northwest corner of Market Street and the Circle (1866 – 1870), note Indiana State Capitol in background (right photo)
In 1871, the school moved again to a larger building on the northeast corner of Michigan and Pennsylvania Streets. This building was once the spacious mansion of the Robert Underhill family. Underhill sold the home in 1858 to the Baptist Church, which was remodeled for use as the Baptist Young Ladies Institute. In 1871, the Board of School Commissioners bought the Institute and land, erected another building and used the mansion for the office of the Board of School Commissioners.
Former Baptist Young Ladies Institute located in the remodeled and expanded Robert Underhill family mansion, home of Indianapolis High School from 1871 – 1884
Indianapolis High School's next move came after the city's superintendent of schools recommended constructing a new high school building but the board voted on January 19, of 1883 that no new building or additions be built due to "financial embarrassment of the board". However, in August architects were hired to ascertain the safety of the high school building and it was determined that it was indeed unsafe and recommended it be replaced. In 1884, the high school building was condemned and torn down. A new building was built on the site, and during the construction, classes were held in the Meridian Street Methodist Church at Meridian and New York streets and in Roberts Park Church at Delaware and Vermont.
1916 photo of Calvin Fletcher School 8, built in 1872 (note addition on right side of photo). This grade school was converted into Indianapolis High School #2.
The school board realized a high school would be needed on the south side, but until they could provide this, they used the new building on Virginia Avenue as an annex. This annex in School 8 on Virginia Avenue, which served the south side of the city and the German community, became known as "High School #2". Students would attend High School #1 (Michigan and Pennsylvania) for their first three years of regular courses, and then would attend High School #2 (Virginia Avenue) for their senior year.
This would continue until Industrial Training School opened in 1895, which later became Manual Training High School (1899) and renamed Charles E. Emmerich Manual High School in 1916, in honor of its first principal of the industrial Training High School. The board also gave their approval of a new type of curriculum known as the "Manual Training Movement" that taught practical hand skills along with traditional classes.
Manual Training High School built in 1895, in the block surrounded by S. Meridian, Merrill Street, and Madison Avenue
Charles E. Emmerich ( first principle of Manual later named Emmerich Manual Training High School in his honor) saw a casual advertisement in a newspaper that caused him to come to Madison, Indiana in 1869 where he taught in the district schools. While in Madison, he wrote an article on "compulsory education", which was published by the Indianapolis Daily Journal and caught the eye of Abraham C. Shortridge, then superintendent of the public schools of Indianapolis.
Mr. Shortridge corresponded with Professor Emmerich and invited him to a conference that resulted in a meeting where Professor Emmerich would join the faculty of the Indianapolis High School, as a teacher of Greek, Latin and German. Indianapolis High School later became Shortridge High School and Emmerich held this position for 19 years, most of which was teaching German.¹
Charles Emmerich became the first principal of Manual Training High School at the request of Abram Shortridge when the school opened in 1895. He excelled at implementing a new type of curriculum, with the blessing of the school board, known at the Manual Training Movement that taught practical hand skills along with the traditional classes.
Present day Shortridge High School, built in 1927, features Classical Revival architecture style and is located on 10 acres at 34th and Meridian Streets in Indianapolis, Indiana (3401 N. Meridian). The school is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Notable students were best-selling novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., author Dan Wakefield, Senator Richard G. Lugar and best-selling authors Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson also attended but were not graduates. Eli Lilly, grandson of founder of Eli Lilly & Company (Pharmaceuticals) was also a Shortridge graduate.
Built in 1927, this building remains Shortridge High School to this day at 3401 N. Meridian Street
Abraham Shortridge was born in Henry County (Indiana) on October 22, 1833 and worked on his family's farm until he was 18. He sold his only possession, his horse to get an education at Fairview Academy in Rush County, Indiana.² He was named for his maternal grandfather, Abraham Crum (1768 – 1836). He earned no college degrees and began his teaching career after a few months of study at the Fairview Academy and Richmond's Greenmount College.
Abram Shortridge had a profound impact on building a public education system in Indianapolis and his legacy remains today in the city and at Shortridge High School. He struggled with vision for many years, but was known for his exceptionally strong work ethic and commitment to the Indianapolis Public School System.
"Mr. Shortridge had been blind for many years, and had never recovered from the shock of an accident that occurred thirteen years ago when he was run over by a traction car east of the city, suffering injuries that necessitated the amputation of his right leg.⁴
The Indianapolis Star, (Indianapolis, Indiana) 09 October 1919, Thursday, page 5
Shortridge's poor health, near blindness, and disagreements with benefactor John Purdue (Purdue University) led Shortridge to resign from the university in December 1875. He then bought a farm near Indianapolis and became justice of the peace in Warren Township.
Abraham Shortridge died on October 8, 1919 at age 86. He lived with his son, Walter H. Shortridge, and the funeral services were held in this home at 5752 Lowell Avenue in Indianapolis. He and his wife Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Evans are buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Section 15, Lot 74.
¹ Indiana Historical Bureau https://www.in.gov/history/2398.htm
²Hale, Michelle D. (1994). "Broyles, Moses". In Bodenhamer, David J.; Barrows, Robert G., The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. P 361. ISBN: 0-253-31222-1
³Shortridge High School, 1864-1981, In Retrospect, Laura Sheerin Gaus, Indiana Historical Society, 1985, ISBN-13: 978-0871950031
⁴The Indianapolis Star, 09 Oct 1919, Thursday, page 5
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